Andronicus Contoblacas (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Κοντοβλάκας) was a Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar. Contobacles originated from Constantinople and left after the Ottoman Empire conquered the city.[1] He first travelled to Venice, Italy.[2] From 1458 and 1465 an Andronikos from Constantinople is mentioned as a lecturer in humanist studies at the University of Bologna.[2] A professor for the Greek Language is mentioned for the term 1466/67 at the same university.[2] Coming from Northern Italy, he arrived in Basel where he resided for about three years between 1474 and 1477.[3] He taught Greek to students of the University of Basel, staying at the dorm of Hieronymus Berlin.[3] He is noted for having been a teacher to Johann Reuchlin.[4][3][5] The last notion from Contobacles is a letter to Reuchlin, in which he encourages him to become a teacher for Greek language himself.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ Schmidt, Wolfgang O. (1971). Eine unbekannte Rede zum Lob der Griechischen Sprache und Literatur (in German). Philologus. p. 264. doi:10.1524/phil.1971.115.14.264.
  2. 1 2 3 Schmidt, Wolfgang O. (1971).p.266
  3. 1 2 3 Wilhelmi, Thomas (ed.). Sebastian Brant, Forschungsbeiträge zu seinem Leben, zum Narrenschiff und zum übrigen Werk (in German). Basel: Schwabe Verlag. p. 12. ISBN 3-7965-1734-X.
  4. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reuchlin, Johann" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  5. ↑ Schmidt, Wolfgang O. (1971).p.268
  6. ↑ Schmidt, Wolfgang O. (1971).p.269

Further reading

  • Jonathan Harris, Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520, Camberley UK: Porphyrogenitus, 1995. ISBN 1-871328-11-X
  • John Monfasani, ‘In praise of Ognibene and blame of Guarino: Andronicus Contoblacas’s invective against Niccolò Botano and the citizens of Brescia’, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 52 (1990), 309–21, reprinted in John Monfasani, Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and other Emigres, Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 1995, no. XI
  • W.O. Schmitt, `Eine unbekannte Rede zum Lob der Griechischen Sprache und Literatur - zur literarischen Biographie des Humanisten Andronikos Kontoblakes', Philologus 115 (1971), 264-77


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