John Italos
Johannes Italos (Greek Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἰταλός; * around 1025 in southern Italy; † after 1082) was a Byzantine philosopher.
John came to Constantinople in 1049 with his father, a Norman mercenary, where his father was in the service of Emperor Constantine IX. kicked. There Johannes became a student of the leading scholar Michael Psellos , with whom he studied the teachings of Plato and the late ancient Neo-Platonists Iamblichos and Proklos . In 1055 he succeeded Psellos as consul of the philosophers at the imperial school in Constantinople. From then on, like his predecessor, he taught there in all areas of philosophy. His students included the future Emperor Michael VII (1071-1078) and his brother and co-emperor Andronikos Dukas and Eustratios of Nikaia, who later became Metropolitan of Nikaia.
John was charged with heresy in 1076/1077 but acquitted on the intervention of Emperor Michael VII. However, a new charge in 1082 resulted in his conviction.
expenditure
- Gregor Cereteli (Ed.): Ioannis Itali Opuscula Selecta. Volume 1: De arte dialectica , Volume 2: De syllogismis. De arte rhetorica. Tbilisi 1924–1926.
- Quaestiones Quodlibetales. First edition by Perikles Ioannou, 1956.
- Opera , ed. by N. Kečakmadze. Tbilisi 1966.
literature
- Katerina Ierodiakonou : Johannes Italos. 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. 64–66, 258 f.
- Lowell Clucas: The Trial of John Italos and the Crisis of Intellectual Values in Byzantium in the Eleventh Century. Munich 1981.
- Katerina Ierodiakonou: John Italos on Universals , in: Documenti e Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18, 2007, pp. 231–247.
- Perikles Joannou: The Illuminationslehre of Michael Psellos and Joannes Italos . Freising 1956.
- Sofia Kotzabassi : Byzantine Commentators on the Aristotelian Topic. Johannes Italos and Leon Magentinos ( Byzantine Research Society 17). Vanias, Thessaloniki 1999, ISBN 978-960-288-062-3 .
- Klaus-Peter Todt : Johannes Italos. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 399-400.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Roeck: The morning of the world . 1st edition. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-406-74119-3 , p. 275 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | John Italos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1025 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southern Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1082 |