About Theophilos Kairis
Theophilos Kairis was a Greek priest, philosopher and revolutionary. He was born in Andros, Cyclades, Ottoman Greece, as a son of a distinguished family. King Otto offered him the position of Director of the University of Athens and awarded him the Gold Cross for his contribution to the war, but Kairis turned both of these down. Kairis, along with a few disciples, founded a pietistic revivalist movement known as Theosebism, inspired by the French revolutionary cults, radical Protestantism and deism. Within the records, extensive letters demonstrating a network of intellectuals would update Kairis about the trends in European science and philosophy.
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