Theodorus Gaza Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς | |
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 A portrait of Theodore Gaza | |
| Born | Theodorus Gaza c. 1398[1] Thessaloniki, Eyalet of Rumelia, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | c. 1475 San Giovanni a Piro, Campania, Kingdom of Naples |
| Occupation | Greek literature, philosophy and humanism |
| Literary movement | Italian Renaissance |
Theodorus Gaza (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, Theodoros Gazis; Italian: Teodoro Gaza; Latin: Theodorus Gazes), also called Theodore Gazis or by the epithet Thessalonicensis[2] (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus[3] (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), was a Greek humanist[4] and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (the Palaeologan Renaissance).
- ^ Jost Trier, Philologische Studien und Quellen, Vol. 101, p.120 (BRD, 1981).
- ^ Coates, Alan; et al. (2005). A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library. Oxford University Press. p. 236. ISBN 0-19-951905-6.
Theodorus Graecus Thessalonicensis ie Theodorus Gaza
- ^ Geanakoplos, Deno John (1989). Constantinople and the West: essays on the late Byzantine (Palaeologan) and Italian Renaissances and the Byzantine and Roman churches. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-299-11884-3.
That Gaza was born in Thessalonica seems clear from the epithet Thessalonicensis (in Latin) or Thessalonikeus (in Greek) found in his own treaties as well as those of Italian humanists.
- ^ Wollock, Jeffrey (1997). The noblest animate motion: speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought. J. Benjamins Pub. p. 77. ISBN 90-272-4571-1.
Soon afterward, another Greek Humanist, Theodore Gaza (1398-1478), warmly supported by Cardinal Bessarion (1403-ca.1472), was called in to retranslate the Problems and a number of other texts of Aristotle.