Petrus Helie

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Petrus Helie (also Helias or Hellias ; * around 1100, † around 1166 ) was a medieval linguist and philosopher of language . Petrus Helie worked mainly in Paris . His students included John of Salisbury and William of Tire .

Around 1146 he wrote the comment Summa super Priscianum on the Institutiones Grammaticae of the late ancient Roman grammarist Priscian . In it, he draws the logical headings in the Organon of Aristotle approach to the explanation and foundation of Latin grammar. His most important sources include the Glose super Priscianum Wilhelms von Conches . He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's De inventione , for which he relied on the rhetorical theory of Thierry von Chartres .

expenditure

  • Leo Reilly (Ed.): Petrus Helias: Summa super Priscianum (= Studies and Texts , 113). 2 volumes. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 1993, ISBN 0-88844-113-4 (critical edition)

literature

  • Estrella Pérez Rodríguez: Petrus Helie. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. 6, Artemis, Munich / Zurich 1993, Sp. 1975
  • Karin Margareta Fredborg: The Dependence of Petrus Helias 'Summa super Priscianum on William of Conches' Glose super Priscianum. In: Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin 11, 1973, pp. 1–57
personal data
SURNAME Petrus Helie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter Helias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French linguist and philosopher of language
DATE OF BIRTH around 1100
DATE OF DEATH around 1166