Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (* 1490 in Pozoblanco , Córdoba ; † November 17, 1573 ibid) was a Spanish humanist , historian and translator.

Life

Epistolarum libri septem (1557).

Sepúlveda studied philosophy in Alcalá de Henares and theology in Sigüenza and at the University of Bologna , where he got to know Italian humanism . Charles V made him one of the educators and teachers of his son Philip .

Sepúlveda was highly regarded for its elegant Latin style and wrote a history of the government of Charles V (r. 1516–1556). He was a follower of Aristotle and translated his politics as well as the commentary of Alexander von Aphrodisias on Aristotle's metaphysics . In his Democrates age he defended Spain's right to wage war and to enslave the Indians ; he justified this with an alleged inferiority compared to other people. In 1550 he took part in a disputation with Bartolomé de Las Casas on the future treatment of the Indians; In this disputation of Valladolid (Junta de Valladolid) he again represented the thesis of the inferiority of the indigenous people. Living secluded on his estate, Sepúlveda served the Spanish crown until his death.

Fonts

Liber gestorum Aegidii Albornotii , 1521

Liber gestorum Aegidii Albornotii ( la ). Girolamo Benedetti, Bologna 1521.
Gonsalus sive de appetenda gloria , 1523.
De fato et libero arbitrio , Roma, 1526.
Cohortatio ut bellum suscipiat in Turcas , 1529.
De ritu nuptiarum et dispensatione , Roma, 1531.
De convenientia militaris disciplinae cum christiana religione qui inscribitur Democrates , Roma, 1535.
Alexandri Aphrodisiei Commentaria in dvodecim Aristotelis libros De prima philosophia, interprete Ioanne Genesio Sepulveda , Parisiis, Dimon de Colines, 1536.
De rebus gestis Caroli V
De rebus gestis Philippi II
Democrates secundus sive de iustis belli causis ... , 1544.
Apologia pro libro de justis belli causis , 1550.
Epistolarum libri septem , 1557.
Historia de bello administrato in Italia ( la ). Antonio Giaccarelli & Pellegrino Bonardo, Bologna 1559.
De regno libri III , 1570.
Opera omnia ( la ). Arnold Mylius, Cologne 1602.
Democrates age , 1892.

literature

Josef Bordat: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1343-1345. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Horst Pietschmann : Aristotelian humanism and inhumanity? Sepúlveda and the Native Americans . In: Fernando Inciarte , Berthold Wald (ed.): Human rights and development. In dialogue with Latin America (= Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 39). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-89354-539-5 , pp. 145-162.

Footnotes

↑ Manuel Fernández Álvarez : Felipe II y su tiempo . Espasa, Madrid 1998, p. 649.
^ Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda: Democrates segundo o de las justas causas de la guerra contra los Indios. Edición crítica bilingüe , translated and commented by Ángel Losada. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid 1951, p. 15 and more often.

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personal data
SURNAME	Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish Dominican, humanist, historian and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1490
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pozoblanco , Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH	November 17, 1573
Place of death	Pozoblanco , Cordoba

[1] Manuel Fernández Álvarez : Felipe II y su tiempo . Espasa, Madrid 1998, p. 649.

[2] Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda: Democrates segundo o de las justas causas de la guerra contra los Indios. Edición crítica bilingüe , translated and commented by Ángel Losada. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid 1951, p. 15 and more often.