Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus

Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus or Tomaeus was a lesser known Albanian Renaissance humanist and Aristotelic scholar and teacher who lived in Padua and Venice until 1497. He taught Greek philosophy and especially the texts of Aristotle and Plato. He held the post for Aristotelian philosophy at the University of Padua.

Work

Tomaeus is known among philologists for his contribution to the translation of Plato's work Moralia. There are letters written by Erasmus that attest to his respect for Tomaeus's personality and extraordinary scholarship. Among the editions that Tomaeus published were many of literary importance. He translated the work of the Greek traveller Pausanias and also of the physician Galen.

See also

• Byzantine scholars

Sources

• Edwin E. Jacques, The Albanians : http://books.google.ca/books?id=IJ2s9sQ9bGkC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=leonik+tomeu+copernicus&source=bl&ots=YIHUUhlWGI&sig=DqwLJtcITTCJgXy-gOcIYZgmSPM&hl=en&ei=OORxStjbGY_wsQPRwMDZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
• A. Serena, Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, 1902;
• D. de Bellis, La vita e l'ambiente di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, in: Quaderni per la storia dell'Universita di Padova 13, 1980; D. de Bellis, I veicoli dell'anima nell'analisi di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, in: Universita di Firenze. Annali dell'Istituto di filosofia 3, 1981;
• D. J. Geanakoplos, The career of the little-known Renaissance Greek scholar Nicholas Leonicus Tomaeus and the ascendancy of Greco-Byzantine Aristotelianism at Padua University, in: Dorema ston 1. Karagiannopoulo, Byzantina. 13, 1985 (griech.).

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