Michael Italikos

Michael Italikos
Bornc. 1090
Diedc. 1157
Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
WorkplacesPantokrator Hospital
Academic advisors
Theodore of Smyrna
Notable students
Theodore Prodromos

Michael Italikos (also Michael Italicus; Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ἰταλικός; c. 1090 – c. 1157) was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox cleric (metropolitan of Philippopolis) and medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator Hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136. Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.

Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.

He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.

His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.

References

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  3. ↑ Kazhdan, Alexander; Jeffreys, Elizabeth M. (1991). "Basilikos Logos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.