Jabril ibn Bukhtishu

Gabriel ( Jabril ) ibn Bukhtishu also known under the name Gabriel Bochtiso, Jabril Bakhtyshu, Djibril b. Bukhtishu, Jibril ibn Bakhtishu, Jibrā'īl ibn Bukhtyishu, Djabra'il b. Bakhtishu, Bôchtîschô, Bakhtshooa, Bukht - Yishu, was a physician who lived AD in the 8th and 9th centuries, and who came from a well-known Persian- Christian family, who in the Academy of Gundischapur ( Beth- Lapat, s. Gundischapur also Djundaysabur ) were active. His grandfather was Jirjis ibn Jibril ( Gabriel Georg bar bar Buhktishu ). Gabriel's son Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu was also physicians.

Jabril was the doctor of Barmacides Ja'far and after 805-808 of doctor of Harun al -Rashid and later of al-Ma'mun. He died in 828 or 829 and was in the St. Sergius monastery in Madain ( Ctesiphon ) buried. He wrote several medical treatises and exercised considerable influence on the progress of science in Baghdad. He undertook with great effort to research of ancient Greek medical works and promoted the translator. He was excommunicated by the Patriarch Timothy I, and then continued the election of the patriarch Isho bar Noun by.

Name

The name Bukhtishu means, according to the Kitāb ' Uyūn al - Anba ' fī al - Tabaqat aṭibbā ( كتاب عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء ) of the Arab historian Ibn abi usaybia ( ابن أبي أصيبعة ) " servant of Jesus " " ( في اللغة السريانية البخت العبد ويشوع عيسى However عليه السلام ) in Syriac. the word " Bukht " is actually Miittel - Persian and means "Saved ". Accordingly, the name means " Saved by Jesus."