GAZA, THEODORUS (c. 1400-1475), one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the century, was born at Thessalonica. On the capture of his city by the Turks in 1430 he fled to Italy. During three years spent in Mantua he learned Latin from Vittorino de Feltre, sup porting himself meanwhile by teaching Greek, and by copying mss. In 1447 he became professor of Greek in the new univer sity of Ferrara, to which his fame soon attracted students from all parts of Italy. He had taken some part in the councils which were held in Siena (1423), Ferrara (1438), and Florence with the object of bringing about a reconciliation between the Greek and Latin Churches; and in 1450, at the invitation of Pope Nicholas V., he went to Rome, where he was for some years employed in making Latin translations from Aristotle and other Greek authors. After the death of Nicholas (1455), Gaza removed to Naples, where he enjoyed the patronage of Alphonso the Mag nanimous for two years (1456-58). Shortly afterwards he was appointed by Cardinal Bessarion to a benefice in Calabria, where he died about 1475. His Greek grammar (in four books), written in Greek, first printed at Venice in 1495, and afterwards par tially translated by Erasmus in 1521, although in many respects defective, especially in its syntax, was for a long time the lead ing text book. His translations into Latin were very numerous. See G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des klassischen Altertums (1893) , and article by C. F. Bahr in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklo pddie. For a complete list of his works, see Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca (ed. Harles), x.