David de Nerken
See also: David
David de Nerken , Armenian philosopher of the 5th century and 6th century
He was first cousin and disciple of Moïse of Khoren. He studied philosophy with Athens under Syrianus, and was school-fellow of Proelus. It was charged by the patriarch Isaac Ier with visiting Édesse, Alexandria, Athens, Constantinople, to inform and collect manuscripts there.
It translated into Armenian the works of Aristote on the Logique , and left important comments on Aristote, Porphyre of Tyr, etc, the ones in Greek, the others in Armenian. They remained handwritten for the majority; one finds of them fragments in the Aristote of the Académie of Berlin.
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