High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Meyendorff (February 17, 1926 – July 22, 1992) was a modern Orthodox scholar, writer and teacher. He was born into the Russian nobility as Ivan Feofilovich Baron von Meyendorff (Иван Феофилович барон фон Мейендорф), but was known as Jean Meyendorff during his life in France.