Background
He continued the work of his father Balanos Vasilopoulos, and was among Greece"s leading scholars of his time. He was born in Ioannina, a center of the 17th–18th-century modern Greek Enlightenment movement. Balanos was the first son of the scholar Balanos Vasilopoulos and became a priest like his father had done before him.
Around 1760 he succeeded his father as director of the Gouma School in Ioannina.
