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Sylvester II

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Also known as Gerbert d'Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II

Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003

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Sylvester II, born Gerbert d'Orlhac in Saint-Simon in 938, was a male Catholic priest, astronomer, mathematician, and politician. He belonged to the Benedictine religious order and spoke Latin. Throughout his career, he held the positions of abbot, Lord Chancellor of France, and Pope. His work locations included Rome, Reims, Ravenna, and the Holy Roman Empire.

He taught students including Adalberon of Laon, Richerus, Robert II of France, and Guido of Arezzo. His written works include *The Letters of Gerbert, with his papal privileges as Sylvester II*. He is recognized in the Popes collection and has been described in sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie*.

Sylvester II died of natural causes on May 12, 1003, at the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Rome, Lateran Palace. He was buried in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.

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Works
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  • The Letters of Gerbert, with his papal privileges as Sylvester II

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Origin
Japan
Active from
1982-12
Active to
1999-12-31
heavy metal

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,658x

  2. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    · 2024 · cited 4,501x

  3. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    · 2016 · cited 4,417x

  4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050

    · 2024 · cited 3,260x

  5. The Treatment-Naive Microbiome in New-Onset Crohn’s Disease

    · 2014 · cited 2,958x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Silvester
Gender
male
Place of birth
Saint-Simon
Place of death
Lateran Palace
Occupation
theologian
Languages spoken
Latin
Religion
Catholic Church
Image
Meister der Reichenauer Schule 002 (cropped).jpg
Work location
Bobbio
Religious order
Benedictines
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Sylvester II
date of death
1003-05-12
date of birth
0938-00-00
place of burial
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
student
Fulbert of Chartres
manner of death
natural causes
described by source
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name in native language
Gerbert d'Orlhac
birth name
Gerbert d'Orlhac
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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Sylvester II, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Pope Sylvester II (Latin: Silvester II; c. 946 – 12 May 1003), originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and ruled the Papal States from 999 to his death. He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. He is said to be the first in Christian Europe (outside of Al-Andalus) to introduce the decimal numeral system using the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

Early life

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