Alfred of Sareshel

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Alfred von Sareshel , also Alfred von Sarchel ; Latin Alfredus Sareshalensis and Alfredus Anglicus (* around 1154, † after 1220), was an English philosopher and translator of the 13th century and Canonicus in Lichfield . His life dates are uncertain. Sometimes they are given as 1175–1245.

Alfred von Sareshel is considered to be one of the first representatives of the newly emerging Aristotelianism . He studied and lived in Spain between 1190 and 1200 and was probably connected to the translation school of Toledo around Gerhard von Cremona . His main work is "De motu cordis" (1217). Alfred was still in the tradition of Neoplatonic metaphysics , but already took into account the psychology of Aristotle and the physiology of Galenus . He called the heart the house of the soul, from which it controls all life processes. The soul is incorporeal, spiritual, simple, indivisible and the entelechy of the body.

Works

  • De motu cordis (On the Movement of the Heart) Dedicated to (his friend) Alexander Neckam (edited by CS Barach (Innsbruck 1878; reprinted 1968) and by Clemens Baeumker: Des Alfred von Sareshel (Alfredus Anglicus) writing “De motu cordis”. Contributions to the history of the philosophy of the Middle Ages XXIII, 1-2, Aschendorff, Münster 1923)
  • "De naturis rerum" (About the nature of things)
  • "De Educatione Accipitrum" (On educating the falcons)
  • Five books on Boethius "De consolatione philosophiae"
  • "De Musica" (About Music)
  • Various commentaries on Aristotle's "Metheora" (Meteorology) (Alfred of Sareshel's Commentary on the Metheora of Aristotle: Critical Edition, Introduction, and Notes (Studies And Texts On The Spiritual History Of The Middle Ages, Volume XIX) Brill 1988, ISBN 978-90-04- 08453-7 )
  • Translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian script “De plantis” from the Arabic (written by Hunain ibn Ishāq ) (ed. With an introduction by Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer: Nicolai Damasceni de plantis libri duo, Aristoteli vulgo adscripti, Lipsiae 1841).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil : Alfredus Anglicus (A. v. Sareshel / Sarchel). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 38 f.
  2. ^ Georgi Schischkoff: Philosophical Dictionary, Kröner, Stuttgart 1991
personal data
SURNAME Alfred of Sareshel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfredus Sareshalensis; Alfredus Anglicus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century