List of Byzantine Scholars - Before The 9th Century

Before The 9th Century

Most important scholars known before the Macedonian Renaissance were active under the Justinian dynasty.

  • Didymos or Didymus (5th-6th century) author of Geoponika
  • Ioulianos or Julianus (5th-6th century) invented a water pumping system
  • Anthemius of Tralles (ca. 474–before 558) mathematician and architect of Hagia Sophia
  • Eutocius of Ascalon (ca. 480–ca. 540) matematician
  • John Philoponus (490–570) mathematician, grammarian, theologian
  • Isidore of Miletus (6th c.) mathematicist, physicist and architect of Hagia Sophia
  • Leontios (died 706) emperor, astronomer, mathematician and engineer
  • George of Pisidia (6th-7th century) scholar, zoologist and astronomer
  • Timotheos of Gaza (6th-7th century) zoologist
  • Stephen of Byzantium (6th-7th century) geographer
  • Callinicus of Heliopolis (7th c.) architect; invented the Greek fire
  • Stephen of Alexandria (7th c.) mathematician and astronomer

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