Maxim Planud Biography

He accepted monasticism in the year. The year is the ambassador of Emperor Andronik II to Venice. Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. Works: pg, t. Maxim Planud was born in nicknamed for about a year. This was the first of the great Byzantine philologists that opened the Renaissance era. Having become a monk, he lived in Constantinople and taught in the monasteries the choir and Christ incomprehensible grammar, rhetoric, poetry, mathematics and astronomy.

Being primarily the editor and commentator of Hesiod, Sophocles, Evripid, Fukidid, Aristophanes, Feocrit, Euclid, Ptolemy, Planudes made up the account of the account, where the first of the Byzantines took advantage of the numbers called Arabic, which are actually Indian. He translated into the Greek language the great Latin authors of Cato, Ovid, Cicero, Boetius, Juvenal, as well as St.

Augustine and wrote several speeches and theological works. Maxim died shortly up to a year. Maxim Planud is a Byzantine scientist and translator, a monk. Born in Nicomedia near the city before the adoption of monastic tonsure was named by Manuel. In his youth, before the city, occupying the position of hegumen of the monastery on the hill of Avksenti, he lived in Constantinople and taught in the capital's monastery of the choir.

Then, before the city of Planud, he visited Venice as part of the imperial embassy. Maxim Planud is famous for his translations of the works of secular and church Latin authors, including Caton Senior, Caesar, Ovid, Cicero, Macrobia, Augustine, Boethius. In Western Europe, the planuds were widely known for its publication of chosen Greek authors, its translations served as manuals to teach the Greek language in the West.

The School of Planud to Nonna Panopolsky, Plutarch, Diophanta, Aref Caesarea, his collection of folk sayings and a guide to arithmetic are also known - the so -called "great calculation in accordance with the Indians." In addition, Planud compiled a Panegirik to the access to the throne of Mikhail IX, left more than a hundred letters telling in detail the activities of church and secular officials, the official intellectual elite.

The Byzantine Dictionary: in 2 tons. The name at baptism is Manuel or Mikhail. After tonsure, he devoted himself to teaching at the school he founded. The copyist of manuscripts and the scribe of the imperial scripting later, although he was an abbot of the monastery on Mount Avksenty, lived in Constantinople and taught chores and akalipta periodically performed diplomatic instructions: in the imperial embassy he went to Venice.

It is famous both his translations of Latin works-as theological Augustine, pseudo-kiprian, literary-poetic, philosophical and ethical Ovid, Cicero, Juvenal, Macro, Boenius, and the development of the principles of internal criticism of texts. Unlike the translations of Demetrius of Kidonis, his translations were distinguished by a beautiful literary style and accuracy of content.

The author of the schism to Hesiod, Sophocles and Euripides, Fukidid and Aristophanes, as well as various works of spiritual content - poetic canons in particular, St. Demetrius, chapters on the outcome of St. The spirit, “Words about faith”, the Encomes of the laudable word to the apostles Peter and Paul, speech on a passionate Friday and others. Among the scientific works of Maxim Planud, a prominent place is occupied by his scholly and “editions” of Nonna Panopolitan, Plutarch, the Arefs of the Caesarea, his textbook of arithmetic “The so -called great score according to the Indians”, where the numbers are recorded in East-Arabic form, its essay “Vasilikos”, where the concept of the Ecumenical Empire develops, its collection of epigrams “Anthology of Planud” in “Chapters”.

In letters, he discussed various aspects of church and civilian life, characterized the intellectual elite of his time. Bibikov is a new philosophical encyclopedia. In four volumes. Stepin, A. Huseynov, G. Next, read:.