Kirik the Novgorodian

Kirik of Novgorod (Russian Кирик Новгородец / Kirik Nowgorodez; * 1110, † after 1156 ) was a Russian monk and chronicler and author of the first Russian mathematical treatise.

Kirik (a form of Cyril ) was a monk of the Monastery in Novgorod Antoniew and later belonged to the surroundings of the Bishop Nifont of Novgorod ( 1130-1156 in office). He wrote in 1136 the first mathematical treatise in Russia, known as the theory of numbers ( Utschenije o chi lach, Учение о числах, full title Utschenije in cal wedati tschisla wsech let), which is mainly dedicated to questions of chronology (such as the date of Easter, which 532 -year cycle after he knew Simonov ). In addition, as submitted by him to the First Novgorod Chronicle posts and some of the "Questions of Kirik " ( Вопрошание Кирика, Woproschanie Kirika, 152 theological Archbishop Nifont questions ). He also translated the Pentateuch and works of Patriarch Nicephorus.

His date of birth is narrated by a remark in his math book. He is probably also identical to the chroniclers, indicating his ordination in 1144 in the First Novgorod Chronicle. There is also believed to have originated the entries on Nifont in the chronicle of his, who died in 1156, he must have survived him. He announced that Nifont had fled to Novgorod and was accused of having plundered the treasury of the church, but also defends him by mentioning the excited him churches.