Isidore of Miletus
Isidore (os) von Milet (* 442 ; † 537 ) was an architect and mathematician from late antiquity .
Together with Anthemios von Tralleis he built the Hagia Sophia on behalf of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. This main church of Constantinople is considered to be one of the last great buildings of antiquity. Before that there was the great basilica of Theodosius , which was destroyed during the Nika uprising in 532.
Isidore taught physics in Alexandria and later at the University of Constantinople . He also wrote a commentary in ancient Greek on the now-lost work On Vaults of Heron of Alexandria . Isidore's nephew Isidore of Miletus the Younger rebuilt the dome, which collapsed on May 7, 558, in its present, somewhat different form in the years up to 563.
literature
- John Martindale: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. 3. Cambridge 1992, p. 724.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Isidore of Miletus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isidorus of Miletus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek architect, physicist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 442 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 537 |