List of Byzantine Scholars - The Palaiologian Renaissance

The Palaiologian Renaissance

The Palaiologian Renaissance was mostly contemporary with the Renaissance of the 12th century. The Palaiologos dynasty ruled from ca. 1260 to 1453. A number of Greek scholars contributed to the establishment of this renaissance also in Western Europe.

  • Demetrios Pepagomenos (1200-1300) zoologist, botanologist and pharmacist
  • George Akropolites (1220–1282) astronomer
  • Gregory Choniades (died 1302) mathematician and astronomer
  • George Pachymeres (1242–1310)
  • Manuel Moschopoulos (13th–beginning of the 14th c.) grammarian,
  • Constantinos Lykites (13th-14th c.) astronomer, University of Trebizond
  • John Pediasimos (13th-14th c.) mathematician
  • Nikephoros Choumnos (ca. 1250/55–1327) scholar, meteorologist and physicist
  • Maximus Planudes (1260–ca. 1305) grammarian and theologian,
  • Theodore Metochites (1270–1332) physician and mathematician
  • Barlaam of Seminara (ca. 1290-1348) mathematician and astronomer
  • Nicephorus Gregoras (1295–1359/60) mathematician and astronomer
  • Demetrius Triclinius (before ca. 1300) grammarian with knowledge of astronomy,
  • Thomas Magister (14th c.) grammarian
  • Theodore of Melitene (1320–1393) astronomer
  • Isaac Argyros (1310–1372) mathematician and astronomer
  • John VI Kantakouzenos (reigned 1347–1355) historian
  • Manuel Chrysoloras (c. 1355–1415) translator, philosopher
  • Joannes Chortasmenos (1370–1437) scholar, mathematician and astronomer

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