Isidore Of Kiev

Isidore Of Kiev

male, deceased (1463)
Russian Rite Catholic, Eastern Catholic bishop, Orthodox converts to Catholicism, Russian, GreekRenaissancehumanist, ukrainian language…greek
Isidore ; Ukrainian:Ісидор; died April 27 1463), a Greek by birth was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. After his death he became known among...
Leo Allatius

Leo Allatius

male, deceased (1669)
College of St. Athanasius, Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, Orthodox converts to Catholicism, GreekRenaissancehumanist, Eastern Catholicism, calabria…greek, Greek College of St. Athanasius, Greek Catholic
Leo Allatius (Leone Allacci), (circa 1586 - January 19, 1669) was an energetic Greek Catholic scholar and theologian. Allatius was born in Chios...
Janus Lascaris

Janus Lascaris

male, deceased (1535)
Rhyndacenus, Greek scholar, GreekRenaissancehumanist, Apollonius Rhodius, Greek Anthology, fall of constantinople
Janus Lascaris (born about 1445; died at Rome in 1535), also called John, and surnamed Rhyndacenus (from Rhyndacus, a country town in Asia Minor),...
Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras

male, deceased (1415)
Renaissance writer, GreekRenaissancehumanist, Chrysoloras, Roberto Rossi, Manuel II Palaeologus, Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia…Renaissance author, greek
Manuel (or Emmanuel) Chrysoloras (c. 1355 - April 15, 1415), one of the pioneers in introducing Greek literature to western Europe. He was born in...
George Of Trebizond

George Of Trebizond

male, deceased (1484)
Johannes Bessarion, GreekRenaissancehumanist, Trapezuntios, Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis, Council of Florence, Trebizond
George of Trebizond (1395 - August 12, 1484), Greek philosopher and scholar, one of the pioneers of the revival of letters in the Western world,...
Marcus Musurus

Marcus Musurus

male, deceased (1517)
GreekRenaissancehumanist, Peloponnese, crete, pausanias, From crete, University of Padua
Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar, was born at Rethymno, Crete. At an early age he became a pupil of John Lascaris at Venice. In 1505, Musurus was made...
Constantine Lascaris

Constantine Lascaris

male, deceased (1501)
Italian of Greek descent, Johannes Bessarion, GreekRenaissancehumanist, Italian Peninsula, emperor of Nicaea, Empire of Nicaea…greek, Greek-italians
Constantine Lascaris (1434 - 1501) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian...
Theodorus Gaza

Theodorus Gaza

male, deceased (1475)
Grammarian, GreekRenaissancehumanist, ferrara, byzantine, thessalonica, siena…greek
Theodorus Gaza (c. 1400 - 1475), a Greek humanist and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of...
Laonicus Chalcondyles

Laonicus Chalcondyles

male, deceased (1490)
GreekRenaissancehumanist, Duke of Athens, Duchy of Athens, fall of constantinople, Byzantine historian, ottoman…Byzantine Greek
Laonicus (Laonikos) Chalcondyles (c.1423 - 1490) was an Byzantine Greek scholar from Athens. The name is probably an anagram of Nicolaos. He was a...
Ioannis Kottounios

Ioannis Kottounios

male, deceased (1657)
GreekRenaissancehumanist, Modern Greek writer, from Central Macedonia, greek, padua, pisa
Ioannis Kottounios, was an eminent Greek scholar. He was born in Veroia on 1572. He was a student at the Greek college of Ayios Athanasios in Rome...