Neophytos Vamvas (1770-1856), scholar
Neophytos Vamvas / Νεόφυτος Βάμβας (1770-1856) was a Greek scholar.
Biography
Neophytos Vamvas was born on the island of Chios [Greece] in 1770. A Greek Orthodox cleric, 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. Vamvas died in Athens [Greece] in 1856.