See also:ARGYROPULUS, or ARGYROPULO, See also:JOHN (c. 1416-1486)
, See also:Greek humanist, one of the earliest promoters of the revival of learning in the See also:West, was See also:born in See also:Constantinople, and became a teacher there, See also:Constantine See also:Lascaris being his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil
.
He then appears to have crossed over to See also:Italy, and taught in See also:Padua in 1434, being subsequently made See also:rector of the university
.
About 1441 he returned to Constantinople, but after its See also:capture by the See also:Turks, again took See also:refuge in Italy
.
About 1456 he was invited to See also:Florence by Cosimo de'See also:Medici, and was there appointed See also:professor of Greek in the university
.
In 1471, on the outbreak of the See also:plague, he removed to See also:Rome, where he continued to See also:act as a teacher of Greek till his See also:death
.
Among his scholars were See also:Angelus Politianus and Johann See also:Reuchlin
.
His See also:principal See also:works were See also:translations of the following portions of See also: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 See also:manuscript
.
See See also:Humphrey See also:Hody, De Graecis Illustribus, 1742, and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's See also:Dictionary of Greek and See also:Roman See also:Biography, s.v
.
Joannes
.
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