Nicéphore Grégoras
Nicéphore Grégoras (Νικηφόρος Γρηγοράς) (towards 1295 - 1360), is a Byzantine historian, born with Héraclée in the Pontus.
Young person, it settles in Constantinople, where its reputation for the scholarship is worth to him the protection of Andronic II Paleologist who names it " chartophylax" (guard of the files). In 1326, Grégoras proposes reforms of the calendar which the Emperor refuses by fear to create of the disturbances. Nearly two centuries later, reforms similar to those which Grégoras had proposed were carried out by Gregoire XIII.
Its principal work is the Roman Histoire , whose thirty-seven volumes relate to the years 1204 to 1359.
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