Gregory Tifernas was a Greek renaissance humanist from the Italian

Italy

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 city of Città di Castello

Città di Castello

Città di Castello is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain of the river Tiber. The city is north of Perugia and south of Cesena on the S3bis. It is connected to the A1...

 (Tifernum in Latin, whence his surname).

He studied the Greek Classics under Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras was a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages....

 and was the first teacher of Greek in France

France

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 at the University of Paris

University of Paris

The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

. It appeears that he only stayed a short time in Paris

Paris

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 but it proved long enough to train several students who would carry on his work.

Known works

• Physica Theophrasti e greco in latinam ab Gregorio Tifernio - Translation to Latin of Theophrastus
  Theophrastus
  Theophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...
  
  ' Physica

See also

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  The migration of Byzantine scholars and other émigrés from southern Italy and Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine Empire and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by some scholars as key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies and...