Sevastos Kyminitis


Sevastos Kiminitis or Sebastos Kyminites was a Pontic Greek scholar who was born in a village close to Τrebizond, Pontus in 1630. He was principal of the Patriarchal Academy in Constantinople in the years 1671–1682. He left Constantinople in 1682 and moved to Τrebizond where he founded a Greek language school, known as Phrontisterion of Trapezous. Around 1689 he moved to Bucharest to become principal of the Princely Academy of Bucharest. He died there in 1703.