Dominicus Gundisalvi

Dominicus Gundisalvi , Latinized Dominicus Gundissalinus (Spanish: Domínico Gundisalvo or Domingo Gundisalvo; also Gundisalvus, Domingo Gonzales, Gundisalvi of Toledo; * around 1110; † after 1181), was archdeacon of Cuéllar (in Segoveste ) and is considered to be relevant with Gerhard von Crem Representative of the translation school of Toledo , in which numerous works by Arabic-Hebrew thinkers were translated into Latin in the 12th century under the patronage of Archbishop Raimund von Toledo . From around 1140 he translated almost twenty works from Arabic together with Johannes Hispalensis (and the possibly identical Abraham ibn Daud ).

Among the numerous translators of Aristotelian works of the 12th and 13th centuries, Gundisalvi stands out due to the fact that he already incorporated the processing of these texts into independent considerations. Against the background of the systematics of the works of Aristotle, Gundisalvi proposed in his work De divisione philosophiae (approx. 1145) the distinction between theology as divina scientia and philosophy as humana scientia . The latter is divided into propaedeutic sciences ( grammar , poetics , rhetoric ), logic and philosophy in the narrower sense. This in turn is divided into a theoretical and a practical philosophy . The consequence of this reorganization was that the septem artes liberales , which until then had shaped the content of medieval studies, lost their independence.

Works

• De anima
• De divisione philosophiae
• De immortalitate animae
• De processione mundi
• Fontes quaestionum
• Liber de unitate

Translations

• Alejandro de Afrodisia, De intellectu et intellecto
• Al-Farabi, De intellectu et intellecto
• Al-Farabi, Exposición del V libro de los Elementa de Euclide
• Al-Farabi, Liber exercitationis ad viam felicitatis
• Al-Farabi, Fontes quaestionum
• pseudo al-Farabi, De ortu scientiarum
• al-Kindī , De intellectu
• Pseudo-al-Kindī, Liber introductorius in artem logicae
• Avicenna, De anima seu sextus naturalium
• Avicenna, De convenientia et differentia subiectorum
• Avicenna, Logica (the logic from the book of recovery : Kitāb aš-šifā )
• Avicenna, De universalibus
• Avicenna, Liber de philosophia prima
• Avicenna, Liber primus naturalium, tractatus primus
• Avicenna, Liber primus naturalium, tractatus secundus
• Avicenna, Prologus discipuli et capitula
• Avicenna, De viribus cordis
• pseudo-Avicena, Liber caeli et mundi
• Isaac Israeli, Liber de definitionibus
• Al-Ghazali, Logica
• Al-Ghazali, Metaphysica
• Ibn Gabirol, Fons vitae

literature

• Fidora, Alexander: The philosophy of science of Dominicus Gundissalinus. Requirements and consequences of the second beginning of Aristotelian philosophy in the 12th century. Berlin 2003. ISBN 978-3-05-004005-9
• Richard Heinzmann : Philosophy of the Middle Ages , Stuttgart 2008 (3rd A.)
• Alexander Fidora:  DOMINICUS Gundissalinus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 281-286.
• Heinrich Schipperges †: Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gundisalvi). 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. 321 f.
• Cl. Baeumcker: Dominicus Gundissalinus as a philosophical writer. In: Contributions to the history of the philosophy of the Middle Ages. Volume 25, 1927, pp. 255-275.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dominicus Gundisalvi in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/SFB435/publikationen/schriftenreihe/band6.htm

Work editions

1. ↑ L. Baur (ed.): De divisione philosophiae. In: Contributions to the history of the philosophy of the Middle Ages. Volume 4, 1903.