Matthaios Paranikas

Matthaios K. Paranikas (; 1832–1914) was an ethnically Greek scholar, philologist teacher and writer of the 19th and early 20th centuries who was born in and a national of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography Paranikas was born in 1832 in Vitsa of Zagori.

Selected writings Σχεδίασμα περί της εν τω ελληνικώ έθνει καταστάσεως των γραμμάτων από Αλώσεως Κωνσταντινουπόλεως (1453 μ.Χ.) μέχρι των αρχών της ενεστώσης (ΙΘ') εκατονταετηρίδος, Constantinople, 1867 Anthologia graeca carminum christianorum, Leipzig, 1871 (in Latin) Περιήγησις Ανδρέου Λιβαδηνού, 1873 Ιστορία της Ευαγγελικής Σχόλης Σμύρνης [History of the Evangelical School of Smyrna], Athens, 1885