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John the Deacon

Venetian deacon, chronicler and religious writer
Person human Q3768443

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[7]
Date of birth
940
Date of death
1018
Country of citizenship
Republic of Venice[5]
Occupation
writer, diplomat
Notable work
Istoria Veneticorum[6]
Languages spoken, written or signed
medieval Latin[10]
Copyright status as a creator
copyrights on works have expired[13]
Different from
Iohanes diaconus[11]
Given name
Giovanni[9]
Residence
Venice[8]
Writing language
Latin[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en John the Deacon en Giovanni Diacono de Johannes Diaconus el Ιωάννης ο Διάκονος fr Giovanni da Venezia fr Jean Diacre it Giovanni Diacono nl Johannes de Diaken nl Johannes Diaconus nl Johannes van Venetië pt João, o Diácono ru Иоанн Диакон (Венеция) ru Иоанн Диакон (историк) uk Іоанн Діакон
🔖 Identifiers · 33
VIAF cluster ID
6787159477556.8B (11.9M–6787159477556.8B, n=3)
Library of Congress authority ID
no95052278
GND ID
119517957
ARLIMA ID
10537
American Academy in Rome ID
11285409
Angelicum ID
44876
CERL Thesaurus ID
cnp02149833, cnp01934372, cnp02142219, cnp00406486
Corpus Corporum author ID
Iohannes_Diaconus, Ioannes_Venetus
DDB person (GND) ID
119517957
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
119517957
Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID
30_10_1008-1008-_Joannes_Venetus_Diaconus
FAST ID
1820697
Show all 33 identifiers +21
Freebase ID
/m/0g8s8n
Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID
3210
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID
person/423238037180
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
28153
IdRef ID
129205281
IxTheo authority ID
080333958
Mirabile author ID
20698
NSK (VIAF) ID
000721348
NSK ID
981005726707209366
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987014796953105171
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810589231705606
Parsifal cluster ID
278650, 865793
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ID
39810
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
28416
RERO ID (legacy)
A005495981
Regensburg Classification
FY 31198
Treccani ID
giovanni-diacono_res-7e003ba8-86d6-11dc-9a1b-0016357eee51
Treccani's Biographical Dictionary of Italian People ID
giovanni-diacono_res-02e6d283-87ee-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
giovanni-diacono
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PCjHvJwg3tDD9yP4tvMVVFq
Yale LUX ID
person/ebb3908d-bb14-4769-95ac-467cb94ba1e3
🔗 Connections
Occupation 2
writer, diplomat
Country of citizenship 1
Republic of Venice
Given name 1
Giovanni
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
medieval Latin
Residence 1
Venice
Sex or gender 1
male
Writing language 1
Latin
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Summary

John the Deacon was born in 940[1]. He died in 1018[2]. He worked as a writer[3] and diplomat[4].

FAQs

What did John the Deacon do for work?

John the Deacon worked as a writer[3] and diplomat[4].

Related Entities

Republic of Venice

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . Corpus Corporum. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Israel J9U ID → 987014796953105171
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987014796953105171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
  2. 19w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 278650, 865793
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Parsifal cluster ID: 865793, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/161708282|Ioannes Diaconus Venetus (#161708282)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6216|Parsifa"
  3. 24w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    CERL Thesaurus ID → cnp02149833, cnp01934372, cnp02142219 +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30848|batch #30848]]: match CERL IDs on the basis of GND (5)"
  4. 25w ago · Bargioni · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Occupation → writer, diplomat
    Wikidata description → Venetian deacon, chronicler and religious writer
    Writing language → Latin
    Residence → Venice
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30468|batch #30468]]: add P1810 to P5739 2/3"
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