John, Climacus, Saint, active 6th century

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Personal name heading	John, Climacus, Saint, active 6th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	John, Climacus, Saint, active 7th century Climacho, Iouanni, Saint, active 6th century Climacho, Joanne, Saint, active 6th century Climachus, Ioannes, Scholasticus, called, active 6th century Climachus, John, Saint, active 6th century Climaco, Giovanni, Saint, active 6th century Climaco, Iohanni, Saint, active 6th century Climacus, Joannes, Saint, active 6th century Climacus, John, Saint, active 6th century Climaque, Jean, Saint, active 6th century Climax, Johannes, Saint, active 6th century Darajī al-Sīnāʼī, Yūḥannā, Saint, active 6th century Della Scala, Iohanni, Saint, active 6th century Giovanni, Climaco, Saint, active 6th century Ĭoan, Lestvichnik, Saint, active 6th century Ioann, igumen Sinaĭskoĭ gory, active 6th century Иоанн, игумен Синайскои горы, active 6th century Iōannēs, tēs Klimakos, active 6th century Ιωάννης, της Κλίμακος, active 6th century Ioannes, Scholasticus, called Climachus, active 6th century Iohanne, Climacho, Saint, active 6th century Iohannes, Climacus, Saint, active 6th century Iohanni, Climaco, Saint, active 6th century Iohanni, della Scala, Saint, active 6th century Iouanni, Climacho, Saint, active 6th century Jean, Climaque, Saint, active 6th century Joanne, Climacho, Saint, active 6th century Joannes Climacus, Saint, 6th cent. Joannes, Climacus, Saint, active 6th century Joannes, Scholasticus, active 6th century Johannes, Climachus, active 6th century Johannes, Climacus, active 6th century Johannes, Climax, Saint, active 6th century Johannes, Klimakos, Saint, active 6th century Johannes, Sinaites, active 6th century Johannes, vom Sinai, active 6th century John, Climacus, Saint, 6th cent. John Klimax, active 6th century John, of the Ladder, Saint, active 6th century John, Scholastikos, Saint, active 6th century John, the Scholastic, active 6th century Jouanni, Climacho, Saint, active 6th century Jovan, Lestvičnik, Saint, active 6th century Jovanni, Climacho, Saint, active 6th century Juan, Clímaco, Saint, active 6th century Klimakos, Johannes, Saint, active 6th century Klimax, John, active 6th century Lestvichnik, Ĭoan, Saint, active 6th century Lestvičnik, Jovan, Saint, active 6th century Qiddis̄ Yūḥannā al-Darajī al-Sīnāʼī, active 6th century Scala, Iohanni della, Saint, active 6th century Scholasticus, Ioannes, called Climachus, active 6th century Scholasticus, John, Saint, active 6th century Scholastikos, John, Saint, active 6th century Sīnāʼī, Yūḥannā al-Sullamī, Saint, active 6th century Sinaites, Johannes, active 6th century Sullamī al-Sīnāʼī, Yūḥannā, Saint, active 6th century
Beginning date	05 06
Birth date	525~
Death date	600~
Place of birth	Syria
Place of death	Sinai, Mount (Egypt)
Field of activity	Monastic and religious life Spiritual life Asceticism
Affiliation	Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
Profession or occupation	Monks Abbots Ascetics Authors
Special note	Not the same as: John III, Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople, d. 577, or Frere Jean Climaque (aka Alexander-Claude), 18th century Trappist monk, author of Instruction sur la Mort du Frere Jean Climaque, 1704 (OCLC #319824807) Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Luis de Granada. Obras, via HathiTrust, February 24, 2020: v. 11, page 281 (caption title: Escala espiritual ... por el glorioso Sant Juan Clímaco, traducida en nuestro castellano por ... Luis de Granada) His Lestvit︠s︡a, stŭlba za dukhoven zhivot, 1982: t.p. (Prepodobni Ĭoan Lestvichnik) Savvopoulos, P. Ekstatische Person als Bildungsziel bei Johannes Klimakos, c1986: p. 67 (St. Jean Climaque) Krumbacher. (Iōannēs tēs Klimakos) Sullam al-samāʼ, 1985: t.p. (al-Qiddis̄ Yūḥannā al-Sullamī al-Sīnāʼī) cover flap (al-Qiddis̄ Yūḥannā al-Darajī al-Sīnāʼī) Učenje Svetog Jovana Lestičnika i naše vreme, 1996: t.p. (... Svetog Jovana Lestičnika) p. 18 (b. 525 [sic], probably in Constantinople) Patrologia Graeca: v. 88, column 1165 (Joannis Scholastici) New Catholic encyclopedia, 2nd ed.: v. 7, p. 949 (John Climacus, St.; also known as John the Scholastic; b. 579, d. 649; abbot, ascetic, and writer on the spiritual life; author of The heavenly ladder) Oxford dictionary of Byzantium (John Klimax; also called Scholastikos or Sinaites; theologian and saint; b. before 579, d. ca. 650) Müller, A. Das Konzept des geistlichen Gehorsams bei Johannes Sinaites, c2006: t.p. (Johannes Sinaites) p. 21-22 (Johannes vom Sinai, author of the Klimax [i.e. The heavenly ladder]); Johannes Sinaites, also called Scholastikos; until the beginning of the 20th century, unquestioningly believed to be a writer of the 6th century) p. 48-55 (re-examination of the available evidence leads to the conclusion that John Climacus should indeed be assigned to the 6th century and not to the 7th century; attempts by scholars such as François Nau to assign him to the 7th century are based on faulty evidence. Based on internal evidence, the Klimax appears to have been written in the second half of the 6th century. John Climacus may have been born around 525 and probably died around 600) Lestvit︠s︡a, 2011: t.p. (Ioann, igumen Sinaĭskoĭ gory) Wikipedia, February 24, 2015 [version dated 27 November 2014] (John Climacus; born about 525 in Syria, died in March 606 on Mount Sinai; Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai) Wikipedia, February 24, 2020 [version dated 8 January 2020] ‎(John Climacus; "Saint John Climacus (Greek: Ιωάννης της Κλίμακος; Latin: Ioannes Climacus), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th-7th-century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches"; born c. 579, Syria; died March 649 (aged 69-70), Mount Sinai; "Formerly scholarship, on the basis of John's entry in the Menologion, had placed him in the latter 6th Century. That view was challenged by J.C. Guy and others, and consensus (such as there is) has shifted to a 7th Century provenance") Italian Wikipedia, February 24, 2020 (San Giovanni Climaco, also known as Giovanni della Scala, Giovanni Scolastico and Giovanni Sinaita; "Per la sua datazione gli studiosi hanno considerato i personaggi citati nell'opera principale di Giovanni, La scala, ma non sono concordi sul periodo in cui visse: secondo alcuni, Giovanni sarebbe nato intono al 525 e morto intorno al 603; altri hanno spostato avanti queste date di circa cinquant'anni, collocando la sua vita tra il 575 e il 650 circa"; sources given for the dates are respectively Andreas Müller, Climacus, John, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception, v. 5, 2012 (approximately 525-approximately 603) and Guerric Couilleau, Jean Climaque (saint), in Dictionnaire de spiritualité, v. 8, 1974 (approximately 575-approximately 650)) John, Climacus, Saint. Sancto Iouanni Climacho altrimenti Scala paradisi, 1492: page [3] ("uno de sancti padri antichi elcui nome fu Iohanni abbate del monasterio del Monte Synai ... E da q[ue]sto nome Scala: questo sancto che lo scripse e chiamato Sancto Iohanni Climaco. Et tanto e adire quanto Sancto Iohanni della Scala") page [185] ("Questo sie la fine del xxx grado de q[ue]sta celeste & intellectuale scala de Sa[n]cto Iohan[n]e abbate de Mo[n]te Synai d[e]l libro no[m]iato Chlimacho. Incomencia el Sermone de Sancto Iohanne Climacho al pastore") page [195] ("Explicit sermo ad pastore[m] beati Iohan[n]is Climaci") Incunabula short title catalogue (access point: Johannes Climacus) Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (access point: Johannes Climax) Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (access point: Johannes Climachus) Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum (access point: Climachus, Ioannes Scholasticus, cognomento) Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, (access point: Climaco, Giovanni) Essling, V. M., prince d'. Les livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe, 1re part., t. 2, 1908: page 35 (Climacho, Joanne)
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