Andronicus Contoblacas

Andronicus Contoblacas ( el, Ἀνδρόνικος Κοντοβλάκας) was a Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar. He was a lecturer at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He is noted for having been a teacher to Johann Reuchlin.

See also

* Greek scholars in the Renaissance

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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