Peter the Iberian


Peter the Iberian

 

Born 412; died 488. Christian theologian and philosopher. Son of a Georgian king.

Peter spent his youth in Constantinople, where he studied Greek, philosophy, and other subjects. A Georgian school of philosophy was founded in Syria under his supervision. The Soviet scholar Sh. Nutsubidze and the Belgian scholar E. Honig-mann believe that Peter is the author of theological and philosophic works ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite.

WORKS

Petre Iberieli. Shromebi, t’argm. (Translated by Ep’rem Mc’irisa.) Tbilisi, 1961.

REFERENCES

“Zhitie Petra I vera, podvizhnika i episkopa maiiumskogo V veka.” In Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii sbornik, vol. 16, fasc. 2. St. Petersburg, 1896.
Honigmann, E. Petr Iver i sochineniia Psevdo-Dionisiia Areopagita. Tbilisi, 1955 (Translated from French.)
Nutsubidze, Sh. I. Petr Iver i antichnoefilosofskoe nasledie. Tbilisi, 1963.