Johannes Mauropous

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Johannes Mauropous from Paphlagonia was a Byzantine monk and scholar. He was Metropolitan of Euchaita .

Johannes Mauropous came to Constantinople around 1028 . He was Minister of the Emperor Constantine IX. He taught philosophy at the University of Constantinople . His students included the historian Michael Psellos , the lawyer Johannes Xiphilinos and Konstantin Dukas, who later became Emperor Constantine X. Through the mediation of Psellos, he got a position at the 1054 Reformed University of Constantinople.

literature

  • Claudio Di Stefani: A Few Thoughts on the Influence of Classical and Byzantine Poetry on the Profane Poems of Ioannes Mauropous . In: Floris Bernard, Kristoffel Demoen (Ed.): Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium . Ashgate Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9781409440727 , pp. 155-180.
  • A. Karpozilos: The Biography of Ioannes Mauropous Again . In: Ελληνικά 44 (1994), pp. 51-60.
personal data
SURNAME Mauropous, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Metropolitan of Euchaita
DATE OF BIRTH around 990
DATE OF DEATH after 1055