Neophytos Vamvas (1770-1856), scholar

Neophytos Vamvas

Neophytos Vamvas / Νεόφυτος Βάμβας (1770-1856) was a Greek scholar and Orthodox cleric. Born on the island of Chios [Greece], in 1804 he went to study in France. Back in Greece he taught in Chios, Corfu, Syros, and finally in the newly-founded University of Athens. In the 1830s Vamvas led a team of translators who authored the first complete translation of the Bible in Modern Greek.