William of Brescia

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William of Brescia or Guglielmo da Brescia ; also: Guglielmo (de) Corvi / Corvis, Guilielmus Brixiensis, Guillaume de Brescia and Guillelmus Aggregator (* 1250 , † 1326 in Paris ), was an Italian doctor and professor in Padua and Bologna .

Life

Wilhelm comes from Canneto sull'Oglio near Brescia . In Padua around 1274 he gave paid lectures on logic and philosophy. Engelbert von Admont was his pupil there. Around 1280 he moved to the medical faculty in Bologna , where he was a student of Taddeo Alderotti , worked as a master’s degree in 1286 at the latest and held lectures on Aristotelian physics .

In 1298 he was next to the friend Simon of Genoa personal physician of Pope Boniface VIII and his successors up to John XXII. Under Clemens V , Wilhelm was local chaplain and in 1307 a judge at the papal appellate court.

In 1326, as Archdeacon of Bologna, he founded the Collegio Bresciano for poor foreign scholars of any nation. It existed until 1434. In 1326 he stayed in Paris.

Publications

  • Consilia
  • Practica
  • Quaestitiones de theriaca
  • Quaestitiones
  • Regimen confortationis et conservationis visus
  • Opus de aegritudinibus renum et vesciae
  • Commentary on Avicenna's "Canon" and the Hippocratic aphorisms

Work editions

  • Michael R. McVaugh : Theriac at Montpellier 1285-1325 (with an edition of the 'Questiones de tyriaca' of William of Brescia). In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 56, Issue 2, 1972, pp. 113-144.

literature

  • Gundolf Keil and Thomas Holste: Notes on Wilhelm von Brescia . Jan Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 181–184 (reprint from the yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , vol. 38–39 (1997–1998), ISSN  0448-1348 )
  • Gundolf Keil: William of Brescia (Guglielmo de 'Corvi). 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. 1496.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Engelbert von Admont . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 128 f.
  2. ↑ books.google.com
  3. ↑ books.google.com
  4. ↑ archive.org
personal data
SURNAME William of Brescia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guglielmo da Brescia; Guglielmo Corvi; Guglielmo Corvis; Guilielmus Brixiensis; Guillaume de Brescia; Guillelmus aggregator
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1250
DATE OF DEATH 1326
Place of death Paris