- George Hermonymus
George Hermonymus or Hermonymus of Sparta was a 15th century Greek scribe, diplomat, scholar and lecturer. He was the first person to teach Greek at the
Collège de Sorbonne inParis .Originally from
Sparta , he first went toMilan where he worked as a copist and then to Paris as there was a great need for a Greek teacher and translator at the time. Hermonymus arrived at Paris in 1476, worked as a copyist at the French court.Later, as a lecturer at the Sorbonne he took advantage of the vast collection of
ancient Greek books in the libraries of Paris to start his scholarly activities. He became renowned as a teacher of Greek and among his pupils wereErasmus ,Budaeus ,Reuchlin andJacques Lefèvre d'Étaples . [Rachel Giese 1934 "Erasmus' Greek Studies" The Classical Journal, 29 (7) pp.: 517-526. This article consists of 10 page(s).]Hermonymus was also involved in diplomacy. In 1475 he was sent to the
Kingdom of England byPope Sixtus IV , in order to lobby for the release of George Neville from imprisonment byEdward IV of England .ee also
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Byzantine scholars in Renaissance References
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* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh117.html The Christian Renaissance.]
* [http://www.encyclopediawiki.org/en/italy/popesixtusiv.htm Pope Sixtus IV]
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