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'''Peter the Iberian''' ('''Petre Iberi''', secular name: Murvan
411 -
491) was Bishop of
Majum (
452 -
491). He is thought by some scholars to have written the philosophical work ''
Corpus Areopagiticum'', widely attributed to "
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite", a work which influenced medieval Christian philosophy.
Peter was a
Georgian (Iberian) Prince, well-known theologist and philosopher, and a Christian
Neoplatonist. His father was the King of
Iberia Buzmar.
In
430 he founded the Georgian Monastery in
Palestine, near
Bethlehem. Georgian Professor
Shalva Nutsubidze (1888-1969) and Belgian Professor
Ernest Honigmann (1892-1954) have published research that argue for the identity of
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Peter the Iberian (Theory of Nutsubidze-Honigmann, 1942-1952).
=== Links and Literature ===
* Petre Iberi. ''Works'', Tbilisi, 1961 (In Georgian)
* Ernest Honigmann. ''Piere l'iberian et les ecrits du Pseudo-Denys l'Areopagite'', Bruxelles, 1952
* Shalva Nutsubidze. ''Mistery of Pseudo-Dionys Areopagit'', Tbilisi, 1942 (In Georgian, summary in English)
* Shalva Nutsubidze. ''Peter the Iberian and problems of Areopagitics''.- Proceedings of the Tbilisi State University, vol. 65, Tbilisi, 1957 (In Russian)
