Kirik of Novgorod
Kirik von Novgorod ( Russian Кирик Новгородец / Kirik Novgorodez; * 1110 ; † after 1156 ) was a Russian monk and chronicler and author of the first Russian mathematical treatise.
Kirik (a form of Kyrill) was a monk of the Antoniev Monastery in Novgorod and later belonged to the environment of Bishop Niphont of Novgorod (1130-1156). In 1136 he wrote the first mathematical treatise in Russia, known as The Doctrine of Numbers (Utschenije o tschislach, Учение о числах , full title Utschenije in Sche wedati Tschisla wsech let ), which is primarily devoted to questions of chronology (such as the date of Easter, whose 532 year cycle he knew after Simonow). He also contributed to the First Novgorod Chronicle and some of the "Questions of Kirik" ( Вопрошание Кирика , Woproschanie Kirika, 152 theological questions of Archbishop Nifont). He also translated the Pentateuch and works of the Patriarch Nikephorus .
His date of birth is recorded in a note in his math book. He is probably also identical with the chronicler who in the First Novgorod Chronicle states that he was ordained in 1144. Since it is also assumed that the entries about Nifont in the chronicle come from him, who died in 1156, he must have survived him. In it he announced that Nifont had fled to Novgorod and was accused of looting the church treasure, but also defended it by mentioning the church buildings he had suggested.
The asteroid (3588) Kirik is named after him.
literature
- Michel Kavyrchine: Le traité de Kirik sur la chronologie. Novgorod, XII e siècle. In: Revue des Études Slaves. Vol. 67, No. 2, 1995, ISSN 0080-2557 , pp. 265-286, ( digitized version ).
- Елена К. Пиотровская: Кирик Новгородец . In: Дмитрий С. Лихачёв (Ed.): Словарь книжников и книжности Древней Руси. Volume 1. Наука, Ленинград 1987.
- Heinrich Siemens : Kirik von Novgorod and the calculation of the Easter date. In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe . Neue Serie, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1991, pp. 214-220, JSTOR 41048582 .
- Рэм А. Симонов: Кирик Новгородец - ученый XII века. Наука, Москва 1980.
- Васи́лий Па́влович Зу́бов (ed.): Кирик Новгородец: Учение им же ведати человеку числа всех лет. In: Историко-математические исследования. Vol. 6, 1953, ISSN 0136-0949 , pp. 174-212.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirik of Novgorod |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirik Novgorodets (English); Кирик Новгородец (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1110 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1156 |