 Based on the works that are currently attributed to him, certain determinations about his biography can be made.He was, perhaps, born at Constantinople, which accounts for his being identified as from Byzantium.He has been given the epithets "Hierosolymitanus" ("of Jerusalem", due to a possible connection with the Lavra of St. Saba), "Scholasticus" (because he is considered to be the first "schoolman," as the introducer of the Aristotelian definitions into theology, though according to others, this name refers to his having been an advocate, a special meaning of the word "scholasticus").