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[[File:Leonico Tomeo - Opuscula, s. d. - 118440.jpg |thumb|''Opuscula'' by Nicholas L. Thomaeus.]]

'''Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus''' ({{lang-it|variously '''Niccolò Leonico Tomeo}}''', '''Nikollë Leonik Tomeu''', {{lang-el|Νικόλαος'''Leonik ΛεόνικοςTomeu'''; Θωμεύς}}; 1456–1531) was a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] scholar and professor of [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Padua]]. He was one of the first professors of Greek descent to teach Greek in Padua.<ref>Runciman, 1980, p. 212: "The University of Padua was one of the first to encourage the study of Greek; and Greeks who could lecture on Greek texts were especially welcome. A Chair of Greek was dounded there in 1463 and given to the Athenian Demetrius Chalcondylas. One of his successors, Nicholas Laonicus Thomaeus, an Epirot by birth, gave in 1497 a course of lectures on Aristotle, unsing only the Greek text and a few Alexandrian commentaries."</ref>

==Biography==