Andronicus Contoblacas

Andronicus Contoblacas (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Κοντοβλάκας) was a Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar. He was a lecturer at the University of Basel in Switzerland.[1] He is noted for having been a teacher to Johann Reuchlin.[2]

See also

References
  1. Pestrada. "Academosophy Newsletter mentioning Contoblacas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-25.
  2. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reuchlin, Johann" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading
  • Jonathan Harris, Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520, Camberley UK: Porphyrogenitus, 1995. ISBN 1-871328-11-X
  • 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


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