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Also Known As Maximus the Hagiorite
Born 1480 • Árta • Greece
Died 1556 (aged 76) • near Moscow • Russia
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
Greek scholar
St. John of Damascus
Christian saint
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Gennadios II Scholarios
patriarch of Constantinople
Eugenius Bulgaris
Greek theologian
Maximus Margunios
Greek Orthodox bishop
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
Tyrannius Rufinus
Roman priest and writer
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop

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