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About Nikephoros Choumnos
Nikephoros Choumnos was a Byzantine scholar and official of the early Palaiologan period, one of the most important figures in the flowering of arts and letters of the so-called "Palaiologan Renaissance". He is notable for his eleven-year tenure as chief minister of emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, his intense intellectual rivalry with fellow scholar and official Theodore Metochites, and for building the monastery of the Theotokos Gorgoepēkoos in Constantinople.
Everything about Nikephoros Choumnos →- Occupation
- writer, philosopher, politician, scholar
- Position held
- Megas logothetes
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Born
- 1250
- Died
- January 16, 1327