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==Biography==
Thomaeus was born in [[Venice, ItalyDurres|VeniceDurazzo]],then part of [[ItalyRepublic of Venice|Republic of Venice]] on February 1, 1456 to an [[Albanians|Albanian]] family from [[Durazzo]]<ref name="PulahaMansaku1982">{{cite book|author1=Selami Pulaha|author2=Seit Mansaku|author3=Andromaqi Gjergji|title=Shqiptarët dhe trojet e tyre|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WZ9IAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=8 Nëntori|quote=Leonik Tomeu, të dy me origjinë nga Durrësi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Albanians: an ethnic history from prehistoric times to the present |last=Jacque |first=Edwin |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1994 |publisher=McFarland & Company |location= |isbn=0-89950-932-0 |page= 196|pages= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IJ2s9sQ9bGkC&pg=PA196 |accessdate=2010-06-14 }}</ref><ref name="Shuteriqi1971">{{cite book|author=Dhimitër S. Shuteriqi|title=Historia e letërsisë shqipe|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rbFQ55oPe-QC|accessdate=9 June 2012|year=1971|page=130|publisher=Enti i teksteve dhe i mjeteve mësimore i Krahinës Socialiste Autonome të Kosovës|quote=Humanisti i madh i Roterdamit, Erasmi, e çmoi shumë dijen e thellë e të gjerë të Tomeut.}}</ref><ref name="Ajeti1969">{{cite book|author=Idriz Ajeti|title=Simpoziumi per Skenderbeun|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nDQBAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Instituti Albanologjik|quote=Krahas me Aleshin, Gjon dhe Pal Gazullin, Marin Beçikemin dhe Tivarasin u dallua edhe Venedikasi Leonik Tomeu (1456—1531), i cili rrjedh prej një familjeje të shqiptarëve të shpërngulur. Leoniku stu- djoi gjuhën greke dhe latine ne ...}}</ref> or a [[Greeks|Greek]] family from [[Epirus]].<ref name=Ossa-Richardson>{{harvnb|Ossa-Richardson|2013|loc=p. 90: "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531), born in Venice to Greek parents, taught philosophy at Padua from 1497, and became known as a translator and interpreter of Aristotle. In 1524, he published a collection of philosophical dialogues, written in an elaborate Latin; the first of these is entitled 'Trophonius, sive, De divinatione'."}}</ref><ref name=Parkinson>{{harvnb|Parkinson|2003|loc=p. 40: "Pomponazzi's Paduan colleague Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531) was the first professor to lecture on the Greek text of Aristotle. As a Venetian of Greek parentage, Leonico Tomeo inherited the mantle of Byzantine scholars such as Gaza and Argyropoulos along with that of Italian humanists like Poliziano and Barbaro."}}</ref><ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher>{{harvnb|Bietenholz|Deutscher|1995|loc=pp. 323–324: "Niccolò LEONICO TOMEO 1 February 1456–28 March 1531 Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (Leonicus Thomaeus) was born in Venice of Epirote Greek parentage and studied Greek in Florence under Demetrios *Chalcondyles. He had apparently been teaching at the University of Padua for some time when he was appointed its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle in 1497, since the Venetian senate's decree called him 'very popular and acceptable to the students'. Though elected to succeed Giorgio *Valla in the chair of Greek in Venice itself during 1504, he does not appear to have taken the post up seriously and was superseded by *Musurus in 1512. He returned to Padua as soon as the university reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, teaching there continuously until his death..."}}</ref> While in [[Florence, Italy|Florence]], he studied [[Greek language|Greek]] under the tutelage of [[Demetrios Chalkokondyles|Demetrios Chalcondyles]].<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1497, the [[University of Padua]] appointed Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of [[Aristotle]].<ref name=Ossa-Richardson/><ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as chair of Greek in Venice, but because Thomaeus failed to take the post seriously, he was succeeded in 1512 by [[Marcus Musurus]].<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1524, Thomaeus published a collection of philosophical dialogues in [[Latin language|Latin]], the first of which was titled "Trophonius, sive, De divinatione".<ref name=Ossa-Richardson/> He was admired by scholars such as [[Erasmus]] for his philological capabilities.<ref name=Parkinson/> When the University of Padua was reopened after the [[War of the League of Cambrai|wars of the League of Cambrai]], Thomaeus taught at the university until his death on March 28, 1531.<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/>
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