Demetrios Chalcocondyles

The person identified as Demetrios Chalkokondyles on Domenico Ghirlandaios fresco Zacharias in the temple in Santa Maria Novella

Demetrios Chalkokondyles ( Greek Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης Dimitrios Chalkokondylis , also known as Demetrikokondyles , Chalkokondylas , Chalkokondylis or Chalkondyles ; born August 1423 in Athens ; † 9. January 1511 in Milan ) was a Greek humanist , scholar and Professor of Greek Studies in Italy.

Life

Demetrios Chalkokondyles taught Greek for over 40 years, alternating in Padua , Perugia , Milan and Florence . Among his students were Janos Laskaris , Angelo Poliziano , Leo X , Castiglione , Giraldi , Stefano Negri and Giovanni Maria Cattaneo, as well as the famous Hebraist Johannes Reuchlin in Florence ; together with Marsilio Ficino , Poliziano and Theodoros Gazes , he was instrumental in the resurgence of Greek literature in the western world. Chalkokondyles published the first printed edition of Homer's work in 1488, by Isocrates in 1493, as well as that of the Byzantine Lexicon Suda in 1499. In 1463 Demetrius Chalkokondyles pushed for a crusade to liberate and recapture his native Greece from the invading Ottomans . He was one of the most important Greek scholars in the West and contributed to the Renaissance literature of Italy. He was also the last of the Greek humanists to teach Greek literature as a subject at the great universities of the Italian Renaissance (Padua, Florence, Milan).

literature

• Stanley Hochman (Ed.): McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama. An international reference work in 5 volumes. Volume 5: T - Z. Index. MacGraw-Hill, London 1984, ISBN 0-07-079169-4 , p. 43.
• Armando Petrucci:  Calcondila (Calcocondila, Χαλκονδύλης Χαλκοκανδύλης), Demetrio. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16:  Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.
• Robert Proctor: The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth-Century (= Illustrated Monographs. 8, ZDB -ID 1005362-1 ). Bibliographical Society, London 1900, pp. 66-69 .
• Walter Rüegg : Chalkondyles. Demetrios. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 2: Beggars to the Codex of Valencia. Artemis-Verlag, Munich a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1655.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization. Volume 2: Baanes - Eznik of Kolb. Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , p. 184.
• Fotis Vassileiou, Barbara Saribalidou: Short Biographical Lexicon of Byzantine Academics Immigrants in Western Europe. Self-published, Athens 2007, ISBN 978-960-93-0275-3 .
• Hippolyte Noiret : Huit lettres inédites de Démétrius Ohalcondyle par Hippolyte Noiret , in: Melanges d'archéologie et d histoire 7 (1887) 472-500. ( persee.fr )

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