Anastasios Christomanos
Greek university professor and chemist (1841–1906)
Anastasios Christomanos (Greek: Ἀναστάσιος Χρηστομάνος, March 22, 1841 – October 2, 1906) was a Greek chemist. He was one of the most important Greek scientists of the later part of the 19th century. His academic collaborators were some of the most important scientists in the world, including Robert Bunsen, Georg Ludwig Carius, Emil Erlenmeyer and Gustav Kirchhoff. He is the father of modern Greek chemical education. He wrote 73 books and dissertations. His fields of study included: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry. He helped restructure Greek education. Greek education was in the grasp of Korydalism for over 300 years. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Christomanos and his contemporaries were pioneers of modern education all over the world.
Christomanos was born in Vienna to a family that migrated from what is now Bulgaria.
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