 "Georgutsates", "Γεωργουτσάτες"), Dropull region in modern southern Albania, then Ottoman Empire.In 1805 he became a priest and changed his name to "Kosmas".The following years he became a student of Athanasios Psalidas, a major figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment and graduated from the Kaplaneios School of Ioannina at 1815.