Agostino Steuco
Agostino Steuco (Latin Augustinus Steuchus , nickname Eugubinus ; * 1496 or 1497 (?) In Gubbio , Umbria ; † March 18 (?) March 1548 in Venice ) was an Italian bishop , scholar and philosopher.
Steuco entered the order of the Augustinian Canons in Gubbio around 1512 . He particularly studied languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopian) at the University of Bologna . From 1525 to 1529 he managed the library of Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461–1523) in Venice. He then became prior in S. Marco. He wrote De perenni philosophia .
In 1538 he became Bishop of Kissamos (Crete) and on October 27, 1538 librarian of the Vatican Library . In 1546 he took part in the Council of Trent as a council father .
literature
- Theobald Freudenberger : Augustinus Steuchus from Gubbio, Augustinian canon and papal librarian (1497-1548), and his literary life's work . Münster: Aschendorff, 1935 (Würzburg, theol. Diss.)
- Charles B. Schmitt: Perennial Philosophy : From Agostino Steuco to Leibniz , in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 27, 1966, pp. 505-532
- Ronald K. Delph: Valla Grammaticus, Agostino Steuco, and the Donation of Constantine , in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 55-77
- Norbert Werner: Agostino Steuco. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1429-1430.
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SURNAME | Steuco, Agostino |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steuchus, Augustine; Eugubinus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian clergyman and bishop |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1496 or 1497 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gubbio |
DATE OF DEATH | around March 18, 1548 |
Place of death | Venice |