Martinus de Dacia

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Martinus de Dacia († August 10, 1304 in Paris ) was a Danish scholastic philosopher , theologian and philologist ( grammarian ) who worked in Paris .

Also Martinus Dacus, Martin de Dacie, Morten Mogensen, Martinus of Dacia, Martinus of Denmark. The addition De Dacia or Dacus means from Denmark. Possibly he is identical to Martinus de Rippa (in a Paris document from 1302).

Life

Martinus de Dacia was believed to have been born Morten Mogensen in Ribe , probably in the 1240s or early 1250s. He is first mentioned in 1288 as Chancellor of the Danish King Erik VI. By this time he had already obtained the degrees of Magister artium and Magister theologiae of the Sorbonne , for which he must have studied for at least fifteen years, and had been Rector of the Sorbonne. In 1290 King Erik VI beat him. as Bishop of Roskilde , which failed because of the resistance of the Archbishop of Lund. But he received several benefices as a canon in Roskilde, provost in Schleswig and canon in Lund (and in Lund also dean). He was one of the earliest speculative (modist) language philosophers called Modistae (such as Thomas von Erfurt , Radulphus Brito , Boetius von Dacien ). They tried to draw metaphysical conclusions from the analysis of colloquial language. His main work De Modis significandi was the most famous work of the milliners up to the Novi modi significandi by Thomas von Erfurt. It has survived in several manuscripts (in contrast to his philosophical works) and was studied well into the 15th century, not only in Paris but also in Italy a lot. He also wrote commentaries on Aristotle ( logic ), Porphyrios ( isagogue ) and Boethius .

In 1296/97 he represented the Danish King Erik VI as procurator at a trial in Rome before the papal court (Pope was Boniface VIII ) in the dispute between the Archbishop of Lund Jens Grand and the king. Shortly before his death he returned to Paris and is buried in Notre-Dame de Paris , where he was also a canon.

He was wealthy and donated an altar for Roskilde Cathedral in 1303 .

Fonts

  • Heinrich Roos (Ed.): Martini de Dacia Opera , in: Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi , Volume 11, Copenhagen: Gad, 1961.

literature

  • Angela Beuerle: Language Thinking in the Middle Ages. A comparison with modernity, Studia Linguistica Germanica 99, De Gruyter 2010
  • E. Pérez Rodríguez, entry Martinus de Dacia , in Lexikon des Mittelalter , Volume VI, 1993, column 350
  • Heinrich Roos: The Modi significandi of Martinus de Dacia. Research on the history of linguistic logic in the Middle Ages , contributions to the history of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages 37.2, Münster: Aschendorff, Copenhagen: Frost-Hansen 1952
  • Sten Ebbesen: Martinus de Dacia , in: Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin , Online
  • Sten Ebbesen: Dansk middelalderfilosofi approx. 1170–1536, Copenhagen: Nordisk Forlag 2002
  • Ana Maria Mora-Márquez: Martinus Dacus and Boethius Dacus on the Signification of Terms and the Truth-Value of Assertions , Vivarium, Volume 52, 2014, pp. 23-48
  • Charles Lohr: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, in : Traditio , Volume 27, 1971, pp. 251-351.
  • Olga Weijers: Le travail intellectuel à la Faculté des arts de Paris: textes et maîtres (approx. 1200–1500) , VI, Studia Artistarum 13, Turnhout (Brepols) 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Roos: The Modi significandi of Martinus de Dacia. Research on the history of linguistic logic in the Middle Ages , contributions to the history of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages 37.2, Münster / Copenhagen 1952, pp. 52, 61–65
  2. ↑ Biography of Martinus de Dacia in Angela Beuerle, Linguistic Thinking in the Middle Ages , De Gruyter 2010, p. 14ff
  3. ↑ The book especially going to Boetius of Dacia, Martinus de Dacia and Ferdinand de Saussure , a
personal data
SURNAME Dacia, Martinus de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mogensen, Morten; Dacus, Martinus; Dacie, Martin de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish scholastic philosopher and grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1304
Place of death Paris