John Servopoulos
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John Servopoulos was a Greek Renaisance humanist and scholar. He studied in Constantinople but emigrated first to Italy and then to England where he worked as a scribe in Reading, teaching Greek and translating documents for wealthy patrons. [1] Later he moved to Oxford where he became a professor at Oxford University. Anecdotally. he is credited with introducing the consumption of coffee to his adopted homeland in the 1430s.[2]
[edit] Known works
- Gaza's Grammar-translation
[edit] References
- ^ Byzantines in Renaissance Italy, citing Harris' Greek Scribes
- ^ History of Coffee
