13th and 14th-century Byzantine physician
Johannes Zacharias Actuarius (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ζαχαρίου Ἀκτουάριος; c. 1275 – c. 1328[1]), son of Zacharias (Greek: Ζαχαρίας), was a Byzantine physician in Constantinople. He is given the title of Actuarius, a dignity frequently conferred at that court upon physicians.[2][3]
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- ^ Dict of Ant. p. 611, b
- ^ Plinio Prioreschi - A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine -2001 Page 91 "Johannes Aktuarios, therefore, should be translated into English as “John the court physician.” Of further interest is that in many modern languages (e.g., English, German, French, Italian, Spanish), the same word (actuary, Aktuar, actuaire, ..."