Georgios Pachymeres

Portrait of Pachymeres in a manuscript of his Byzantine history . Bavarian State Library , Munich

Georgios Pachymeres ( Γεώργιος Παχυμέρης ; * 1242 in Nikaia ; † 1310 in Constantinople ) was a Byzantine scholar, poet and writer.

After the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, Pachymeres' father fled to Bithynia . Pachymeres grew up there. After Constantinople was recaptured by the Byzantines in 1261, Pachymeres and his family moved there. In Constantinople he attended the school of Georgios Akropolites . He then became a deacon and teacher at the Hagia Sophia College , the School of the Patriarchate.

Despite his opposition to the unification of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, he retained a certain neutrality in his writings, which dealt with the dispute between Michael VIII and Andronikos II . Another important compendium was a compilation of thirteen books ( Syngraphikai historiai ), which dealt with Byzantine history and are to be regarded as a continuation of Georgios Akropolites . Pachymeres was also active in other areas of science; so he compiled a collection of the writings of Aristotle and brought out manuals on astronomy, mathematics and music.

literature

• Tzotcho Boiadjiev : Georgios Pachymeres. In: Laurent Cesalli, Gerald Hartung (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of the Middle Ages. Volume 1: Byzantium, Judaism. Schwabe, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7965-2623-7 , pp. 102-105, 265 f.
• Pantelis Golitsis: Pachymérès, Georgios. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 7. CNRS Éditions, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-271-09024-9 , pp. 627-632
• Johannes Karayannopulos, Günter Weiß: Source studies on the history of Byzantium (324-1453). Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02244-2 , p. 492 f.

Web links

• Pachymeres .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .