Michael Panaretos

Michael Panaretos

Michael Panaretos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Πανάρετος; c. 1320 – c. 1390) was an official of the Trapezuntine empire and a Greek historian. His sole surviving work is a chronicle of the Trapezuntine empire of Alexios I Komnenos and his successors. This chronicle not only provides a chronological framework for this medieval empire, it also contains much valuable material on the early history of the Ottoman Turks from a Byzantine perspective, however it was almost unknown until Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer discovered it in the nineteenth century among the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice. "Owing to this drab but truthful chronicle," writes the Russian Byzantist Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, "it has become possible to a certain extent to restore the chronological sequence of the most important events in the history of Trebizond. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Panaretos is the 398th most popular historian (up from 435th in 2019). (up from 4,000th in 2019)