Theophilos Corydalleus

Theophilos Corydalleus, in Greek Θεόφιλος Κορυδαλλεύς, lived from 1574 to 1646 and was a Greek Neo-Aristotelian philosopher who initiated the movement known as Korydalism. He was also an Eastern Orthodox cleric, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos, and a physician, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, author, educator and geographer. Born in Korydallos in Attica, which was renamed from Pachy in 1923 to honour him, he finished his early education in Athens, attended the Saint Athanasius college in Rome from 1604 to 1608, and studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Padua, where he received his doctorate on 5 June 1613 and met Cesare Cremonini, who influenced him toward Neo-Aristotelian thought. His philosophy kept influencing Greek education for two hundred years after its inception.