List of Byzantine scholars
This is a list of Byzantine scientists and other scholars.Most important scholars known before the Macedonian Renaissance were active under the Justinian dynasty.
- Didymos or Didymus, author of Geoponika
- Anthemius of Tralles, mathematician and architect of Hagia Sophia
- Eutocius of Ascalon, mathematician
- John Philoponus, mathematician, grammarian, theologian
- Isidore of Miletus, mathematicist, physicist and architect of Hagia Sophia
- Leontios, emperor, astronomer, mathematician and engineer
- George of Pisidia, scholar, zoologist and astronomer
- Timotheos of Gaza, zoologist
- Stephen of Byzantium, geographer
- Callinicus of Heliopolis, architect; invented the Greek fire
- Stephen of Alexandria, mathematician and astronomer
The Macedonian Renaissance
The Macedonian Renaissance occurred in the period of the Macedonian dynasty from 867 to 1056.
The Komnenian period ranged from 1081 to about 1185.
The Palaiologian Renaissance was mostly contemporary with the Renaissance of the 12th century. The Palaiologos dynasty ruled from c. 1260 to 1453. A number of Greek scholars contributed to the establishment of this renaissance also in Western Europe.
- Demetrios Pepagomenos, zoologist, botanologist and pharmacist
- George Akropolites, astronomer
- Gregory Choniades, mathematician and astronomer
- Manuel Holobolos, scholar, teacher
- George Pachymeres
- Manuel Moschopoulos grammarian
- Constantinos Lykites, astronomer
- John Pediasimos, mathematician
- Nikephoros Choumnos, scholar, meteorologist and physicist
- Maximus Planudes, grammarian and theologian,
- Theodore Metochites, physician and mathematician
- Barlaam of Seminara, mathematician and astronomer
- Nicephorus Gregoras, mathematician and astronomer
- Demetrius Triclinius, grammarian with knowledge of astronomy,
- Thomas Magister, grammarian
- Theodore of Melitene, astronomer
- Isaac Argyros, mathematician and astronomer
- John VI Kantakouzenos, historian
- Manuel Chrysoloras, translator, philosopher
- Joannes Chortasmenos, scholar, mathematician and astronomer