Michael Italicus or Italikos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἰταλικός; fl. 1130–57) was a Byzantine medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136.[1] Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.[1] His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.[1] Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.[2]
Michael Italikos | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1090 |
| Died | 1157 |
| Nationality | Byzantine Greek |
| Alma mater | University of Constantinople |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Monastery School of Philippolis |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodore of Smyrna |
| Doctoral students | Theodoros Prodromos |
He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Plinio Prioreschi (1996). A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine. Horatius Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-888456-04-2.
- ^ M. Loos (30 June 1974). Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 102. ISBN 978-90-247-1673-9.
- ^ Kazhdan, Alexander; Jeffreys, Elizabeth M. (1991). "Basilikos Logos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.