Georgios Hamartolos

George Hamartolos or Hamartolus was a Byzantine monk in Constantinople under Michael III (840–867) and the author of a chronicle of some importance. Hamartolus is not his name but the epithet he gives to himself in the title of his work: "A compendious chronicle from various chroniclers and interpreters, gathered together and arranged by George, a sinner ". It is a common form among Byzantine monks. 19th-century German 19th scholar Karl Krumbacher protested against the use of this epithet as a name and proposed the form Georgios Monachos.