Michael Apostolios

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Michael Apostoles (also Apostolios , Apostolis , Greek Μιχαήλ or Μιχαῆλος Ἀποστόλης or Ἀποστόλιος * um 1422 in Constantinople Opel , † 18 July 1478 in Crete ) was a Byzantine writer, Parömiograph , copyist and teacher.

There is hardly any news about Michael's youth. When Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, he was captured and abducted. After about a year in captivity, he was released and took the route to Crete, which was under Venetian rule. Soon after, he traveled to Italy, where he met the influential Greek Cardinal Bessarion . On his behalf, he was to work as a copyist and manuscript collector in the Cretan city of Candia, and from 1466 also as a Greek teacher. After the death of his mentor in 1472, he tried in vain to establish himself as a teacher in Italy and died in Crete after a long illness on July 18, 1478.

His main work is a collection of Greek proverbs (Συναγωγὴ παροιμιῶν). In addition, 124 letters, several speeches and epigrams have survived from him .

Text output

  • Hippolyte Noiret : Lettres inédites de Michel Apostolis publiés d'après les manuscrits du Vatican avec des opuscules inédits du même auteur (= Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Volume 54). Thorin, Paris 1892 ( online )
  • Rudolf Stefec: Michael Apostoles, speech to the father-in-law: tradition and edition. In: Roman historical communications. Volume 51, 2009, pp. 131-156

literature

  • Tzotcho Boiadjiev : Michael Apostolios. 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. 215 f., 295
  • Otto Crusius : Apostolios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 182 f.
  • Deno John Geanakoplos: Greek Scholars in Venice. Studies in the Dissemination of Greek Learning from Byzantium to Western Europe. Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1962, pp. 73-110.
  • Armin Hohlweg : Apostolios. In: Tusculum Lexicon of Greek and Latin Authors of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Munich / Zurich 1982, p. 69.
  • Prosopographic lexicon of the time of palaeologists. Vienna 1976–1996, No. 1201.
  • Alice-Mary Talbot: Apostoles, Michael. In: A. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Volume 1. New York / Oxford 1991, pp. 140 f.
  • Rudolf Stefec: The letters of Michael Apostoles. Kovač, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8300-7241-6 .
  • Rudolf Stefec: A diatribe by Michael Apostoles. In: Byzantine Journal. Volume 107, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 851–876.

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