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- Born:
- c. 1000, Paphlagonia, Byzantine Empire [now in Turkey]
- Died:
- c. 1075ā81, Constantinople
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John Mauropous
Byzantine scholar
John Mauropous (born c. 1000, Paphlagonia, Byzantine Empire [now in Turkey]ādied c. 1075ā81, Constantinople) was a Byzantine scholar and ecclesiastic, author of sermons, poems and epigrams, letters, a saintās life, and a large collection of canons, or church hymns (many unpublished).
The chronology of Mauropousā life is uncertain. He was a private tutor in Constantinople in the first quarter of the 11th century and was at court in Constantine IXās reign (1042ā55) at the instigation of his friend and pupil Michael Psellus. About 1050 he became metropolitan of Euchaita in Asia Minor; later he became a monk.
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