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George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Quick Facts
- Acropolites also spelled:
- Akropolites
- Born:
- 1217, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
- Died:
- 1282, Constantinople (aged 65)
- Subjects Of Study:
- Byzantine Empire
George Acropolites (born 1217, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died 1282, Constantinople) was a Byzantine scholar and statesman, the author of Chronike Syngraphe (“Written Chronicle”), a history of the Byzantine Empire from 1203 to 1261. He also played a major diplomatic role in the attempt to reconcile the Greek and Latin churches. Acropolites was reared at the imperial court, then at Nicaea in Asia Minor. Entrusted with important state missions under the emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes and his successors Theodore II Lascaris and Michael VIII Palaeologus, he was in 1255 made grand logothete (chancellor). Named governor of the western ...(100 of 214 words)