Anastasios Michail was a member of Berlin's Academy of Sciences.

He was born in Naousa

Naousa

Naousa is the name of several places in Greece:*Naousa, Imathia, a town in Imathia*Naoussa, Paros, a village on the island Paros, Cyclades...

. He had his general studies in Ioannina with Georgios Sougdouris

Georgios Sougdouris

Georgios Sougdouris was a Greek philosopher and theologian.Sougdouris was born in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, where he finished ground level studies. He continued his studies in Venice and Padua. In 1681 Sougdouris became a priest and two years later the head of the Goumas school in Ioannina,...

 as his teacher of rhetoric and philosophy. In 1702 he had the chance to meet with distinguished German theologians in Constantinople. Later he went to Halle and was later elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He produced enlightening work for Christians and Greeks in Moscow, where he won renown for his theological and philosophical knowledge. He was well acquainted with the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 and Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 languages. He died in Russia in 1722.

• List of Macedonians (Greek)

External links

• New Testament version in Modern Greek (Η Καινή Διαθήκη του Κυρίου και Σωτήρος ημών Ιησού Χριστού Μεταφρασθείσα εις κοινήν διάλεκτον, c. 1814)
• L’ Hellenisme Contemporain, Διονύσιος Ζακυθινός, Athens, 1953, "Το σχολείον παράγων της Εθνικής αφυπνίσεως" (in Greek)
• Charalambos A. Minaoglou, "Greek Travellers and Travel Literature from the Fift eenth to the Eighteenth Century" (Χαράλαμπος Α. Μηνάογλου, "Έλληνες Περιηγητές στην Ευρώπη του Διαφωτισμού")