Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (Italian: Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, Albanian: Nikollë Leonik Tomeu, Greek: Νικόλαος Λεόνικος Θωμεύς; 1456–1531) was a Venetian scholar and professor of philosophy as well as of Greek and Latin at the University of Padua.

[1] Thomaeus was born in Venice, Italy on February 1, 1456, to an Albanian[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] or Greek[15][16][17][18][19] family from Epirus[20] or Albania.

[1] While in Florence, he studied Greek philosophy and literature under the tutelage of Demetrios Chalcondyles.

[19][17] In 1497, the University of Padua appointed Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle.

[17] In 1524, Thomaeus published a collection of philosophical dialogues in Latin, the first of which was titled Trophonius, sive, De divinatione.