Nikolaos of Otranto
Nikolaos von Otranto (also: Abbot Nektarios von Casole ) (* approx. 1155/60 in Otranto ; † February 9, 1235 in the monastery of San Nicola di Casole ) was a Greek monastery leader and writer.
Life
Nikolaos was probably born around 1155/60. It is not known where he received his considerable education, but it was possibly the monastery of San Nicola di Casole , only a few kilometers from Otranto , a very important center of Greek education in Apulia . In any case, he himself became a priest monk of this monastery at the latest in 1205 , after having been a lay teacher of Greek in his native city. Since he mastered Latin and Greek, he served Cardinal Benedict of Santa Susanna in 1205/7 and Cardinal Pelagius von Albano in 1214/5 on their travels to the Latin Empire of Constantinople as an interpreter in discussions about the Church Union. With a diplomatic embassy from Emperor Frederick II , he traveled to the Byzantine imperial court in Nikaia in 1223/4 , as a representative of the Greek churches of Apulia in 1232 to the papal curia .
Nikolaos translated several, mostly liturgical , texts from Greek into Latin and vice versa, including the Basileios liturgy and the liturgy declaration of the Patriarch Germanos I of Constantinople . He also wrote his own writings, including a. Poems and letters.
Major works
- The “Art of the Chisel”, a collection on various methods of fortune-telling, which Nikolaos translated into Greek from a Latin version of originally Arabic sources and provided with a foreword on the limits of fortune-telling in Christianity.
- Three “Syntagmata” in Greek and Latin against the Latins with several addenda. In particular, Nikolaos turns against the filioque , the azymes and various liturgical and disciplinary deviations.
- The "disputation against the Jews". This is a fictitious dialogue in this form, which is supposedly based on real disputes between the author and Jews. This writing is on the one hand the most extensive and most learned work of Nikolaos, on the other hand it is one of the most extensive Byzantine writings of this genre.
literature
- Johannes M. Hoeck , Raymond-Joseph Loenertz : Nikolaos-Nektarios of Otranto Abbot of Casole. Contributions to the history of east-western relations under Innocent III. and Friedrich II. (= Studia Patristica et Byzantina 11). Ettal 1965.
- Michael Chronz: Νεκταρίου, ηγουμένου μονής Κασούλων (Νικολάου Υδρουντινού): «Διάλεξις κατά Ιουδαίων». Κριτική έκδοση (Abbot Nektarios von Casole (Nikolaos from Otranto), "Disputation against the Jews". Critical edition [Greek]; text with critical and source apparatus as well as a modern Greek introduction to the author and work). Metropolis of Thebes and Levadeia, Byzantine Monastery Hosios Loukas, Athens 2009. 60 * u. 303 pp. ISBN 978-960-93-1497-8 (Athens, Univ., Diss. 2008, http://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/23612 ).
- Lars Martin Hoffmann: The anti-Jewish dialogue Kata Iudaion of the Nikolaos-Nektarios von Otranto [electronic resource]. Mainz University Library 2015 (Mainz, Univ., Diss. 2008; http://d-nb.info/1073879976 ).
- Wilhelm Blum: Nikolaos-Nekatrios, Abbot of Casole. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 859-860.
- Sotirios N. Kollias = Σωτηρίου Ν. Κόλλια, Λατίνοι και Ορθόδοξοι στη Magna Graecia του 13ου αιώνα, εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη, Αθήνα 2017.
- Sotirios N. Kollias = Σωτηρίου Ν. Κόλλια, Για το Δόγμα και τη Λατρεία, Μια πρωτότυπη προσέγγιση στα αντιμαχόμενα σημαία μεταξύ Ορθοδόξων και Λατίνων μέσα από ανέκδοτα χειρόγραφα χειρόγραφα , εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη, Αθήνα of 2019.
Web links
- Publications on Nikolaos-Nektarios in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ Λατίνοι και Ορθόδοξοι στη Magna Graecia του 13ου αιώνα. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nikolaos of Otranto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nektarios of Casole |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek monastery leader and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1155 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Otranto |
DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1235 |
Place of death | San Nicola di Casole near Otranto |