Isidore of Seville
Hispano-Roman scholar (c. 560–636) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".[2]
Isidore of Seville | |
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Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church | |
Born | c. 560 Cartagena |
Died | 4 April 636 (aged 75–76) Seville |
Venerated in | |
Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
Feast | 4 April |
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Patronage | Students
Philosophy career |
Notable work | Etymologiae |
Era | Medieval philosophy |
School | |
Main interests | Grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, medicine, law, languages, cities, animals and birds, the physical world, geography |
Notable ideas | Isidoran map |
At a time of disintegration of classical culture,[3] aristocratic violence, and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Chalcedonian Christianity, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after his brother's death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.
His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia that assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost. This work also helped standardize the use of the period (full stop), comma, and colon.[4]
Since the early Middle Ages, Isidore has sometimes been called Isidore the Younger or Isidore Junior (Latin: Isidorus iunior), because of the earlier history purportedly written by Isidore of Córdoba.[5]