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)
