scholarch

[ skol-ahrk ]

noun

1. the head of a school.
2. the head of a school of philosophy in ancient Athens.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scholarch¹

From the Greek word scholárchēs, dating back to 1860–65. See school ¹, -arch

Example Sentences

Aristo is frequently confounded with another philosopher of the same name, Ariston of Iulis, in Ceos, who, about 230 B.C., succeeded Lyco as scholarch of the Peripatetics.

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The only work attributed to him is a treatise on divination, but his reputation may be gauged by the fact that in 44 B.C. the Areopagus invited him to succeed Andronicus of Rhodes as scholarch.

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It passed to his nephew Speusippus, who succeeded him as teacher, conductor of the school, or scholarch, and was himself succeeded after eight years by Xenocrates of Chalc�don; while another pupil of the Academy, Aristotle, after an absence of some years from Athens, returned thither and established a school of his own at the Lyceum, at another extremity of the city.

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