Ioannis Filimon

Ioannis Filimon (Greek: Ιωάννης Φιλήμων; 1798/99–1874) was a 19th-century Greek historian, militant journalist, and publisher of the newspaper Aion for more than fifteen years, from 1838 to 1854. He also participated actively in the Greek Revolution of 1821.

His work entitled "Essay on the history of Filiki Eteria" was first published in 1834, a fact that makes Filimon one of the first historians of modern Greece. Filimon, intending to write the first general history of the Greek Revolution, tried to unfold the history of the Filiki Eteria, a secret revolutionary organization, in order to emphasize its leading role in the conception and dissemination of the idea of freedom and to restore its forgotten connection with the Revolution. Although he managed to gather several sources, Filimon stated that they were not enough to write a true story of Filiki Eteria. Nonetheless, the essay has been an important source of information for subsequent memoirists and historians of the Greek Revolution.