Michael Italikos

Michael Italicus or Italikos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἰταλικός; fl. 1130–57) was a Byzantine medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136.^[1] Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.^[1] His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.^[1] Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.^[2]

Michael Italikos
Born	c. 1090
Died	1157 (1158) Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire
Nationality	Byzantine Greek
Alma mater	University of Constantinople
Scientific career
Institutions	Monastery School of Philippolis
Doctoral advisor	Theodore of Smyrna
Doctoral students	Theodoros Prodromos

He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.^[3]