ARGYROPULUS, or ARGYROPULO,

See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN (c. 1416-1486)  , Greek humanist, one of the earliest promoters of the revival of learning in the West, was born in Constantinople, and became a teacher there, Constantine Lascaris being his pupil . He then appears to have crossed over to Italy, and taught in Padua in 1434, being subsequently made rector of the university . About 1441 he returned to Constantinople, but after its capture by the Turks, again took refuge in Italy . About 1456 he was invited to Florence by Cosimo de'Medici, and was there appointed professor of Greek in the university . In 1471, on the outbreak of the plague, he removed to Rome, where he continued to act as a teacher of Greek till his death . Among his scholars were Angelus Politianus and Johann Reuchlin . His principal works were translations of the following portions of Aristotle,—Categoriae, De Interpretatione, Analytica Posteriora, Physica, De Caelo, De Anima, Metaphysica, Ethica Nicomachea, Politica; and an Expositio Ethicorum Aristotelis . Several of his writings exist still in manuscript . See Humphrey Hody, De Graecis Illustribus, 1742, and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, s.v . Joannes .