Nikephoros Blemmydes

Nikephoros Blemmydes was a Byzantine monk, scholar and teacher in the Empire of Nicaea. He wrote textbooks on logic and physics, theological works and an autobiography, and he taught the future emperor Theodore II Laskaris. He declined the office of patriarch and spent his later years in a monastery near Ephesus, and he is regarded as the leading scholar of the Nicaean period.