Andronicus Contoblacas ( el, Ἀνδρόνικος Κοντοβλάκας) was a Greek
Renaissance humanist
Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...
and scholar. He was a lecturer at the
University of Basel
The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...
in
Switzerland. He is noted for having been a teacher to
Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin (; sometimes called Johannes; 29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522) was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, and Italy and France. Most of Reuchlin' ...
.
See also
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Greek scholars in the Renaissance
The migration waves of Byzantine Greek scholars and émigrés in the period following the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek studies that led to the development of the Renaissanc ...
References
Further reading
* Jonathan Harris, ''Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520'', Camberley UK: Porphyrogenitus, 1995.
* 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
15th-century Byzantine people
Greek Renaissance humanists
15th-century Greek educators
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