Cyril of Scythopolis

Kyrillos von Skythopolis (* around 524 in Skythopolis (Palestine), † around 558 ) wrote several vitae of the great monk fathers as a hagiographer .

His religious parents were acquainted with Sabas and directed Kyrillo's upbringing entirely towards monasticism . In 542 he became a monk and lecturer. He followed the advice of Johannes Hesychastes in the Old Laura . In 544 he entered the Euthymios monastery near Jerusalem . In 554 he and his companions moved to the Neue Laura, a former center of the Origenists . At the beginning of 556 he moved to the great Sabas-Laura.

In addition to the lives of Sabas and Johannes Hesychastes, whom he still personally knew, he wrote the biography of Euthymius von Melitene , the anchorite Kyriakos , the Koinobiarch Theodosios , Theognios and Abraham von Krateias. His vites are the main sources for Palestinian monasticism in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Edition of his writings

Eduard Schwartz (Ed.): Kyrillos von Skythopolis (= texts and investigations on the history of early Christian literature . Series 4, Vol. 4, No. 2 = Vol. 49, No. 2 of the whole series, ISSN 0082-3589 ). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1939.

literature

Bernd Kettet: Kyrillos of Skythopolis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 897-899. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Karl Suso Frank: Kyrillos of Skythopolis, monk and hagiograph (525 to around 557/558) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 1600.

Web links

Literature by and about Kyrillos von Skythopolis in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Karayannopulos, Günter Weiss: Source studies for the history of Byzantium (324-1453) (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02244-2 , pp. 271, 290 give 568/69 as the year of death.

personal data
SURNAME	Cyril of Scythopolis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Palestinian monk
DATE OF BIRTH	at 524
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scythopolis , Palestina Secunda
DATE OF DEATH	at 558

[1] Johannes Karayannopulos, Günter Weiss: Source studies for the history of Byzantium (324-1453) (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02244-2 , pp. 271, 290 give 568/69 as the year of death.