Bessarion

Greek

"wooded valley"

Bessarion Origin and Meaning

The name Bessarion is a boy's name meaning "wooded valley".

This was the name of a 5th-century Egyptian hermit and was later adopted by the Greek scholar Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472), who became a Roman Catholic bishop. Renowned Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848) bore the Russian form of this rare name.