Heymeric de Campo

Heymericus de Campo (also home Erich von Campen and Home Rich van de Velde; * um 1395 in Son near Eindhoven, † August 11 1460 in Leuven ) was a Dutch scholar and late medieval scholastics.

Life

Heymericus de Campo was born around 1395 in Son, the son of a priest. The village is located just north of Eindhoven in the Netherlands today. From about 1410 to 1420 he studied philosophy and theology in Paris. After a short study break, during which the young master in Diest Belgian taught philosophy, he took in 1423 in Cologne, studying theology back to where Heymerich 1428 the title of " Master of Theology " acquired. After the newly appointed professor of theology had already been provided at the Universitas Studii Coloniensis the Rector, Heymerich represented the University from 1433 to 1435 at the Council of Basel. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the University of Louvain, where Heymerich professor until his death on 11 August 1460 taught theology.

Work

Heymericus de Campo is the main representative of the Albertismus by advocating a Neoplatonic interpretation of Aristotle coined. When his influential alberti tables publication are the Problemata inter Albertum Magnum et Sanctum Thomam or Tractatus problematicus. Here, the Dutch philosopher turned in the course of his life from the usual university science style from. So Heymerich handle increasingly neo-Platonic teachings and was early on fascinated by Raymundus Lull. Following the model he developed Lull 1433 own universal science, which was based on the principles of Albertus Magnus, which he described as a seal of eternity ( sigillum aeternitatis ). In addition Heymerich also took part, for example in his disputation de ecclesiastica potestate to the contemporary church-political disputes. In it, he initially took the position that the General Council is above the Pope, which is nothing else than churches - parliamentary means. Last but not least Heymerich sat apart with Islam and even tried to justify his church theoretical considerations with the Koran. Towards the end of his stay on the general council in Basel Heymerich wrote the Colliget Principiorum one of his major philosophical works. Even before he attended the Council of Basel, the Dutch theologian had started work on his monumental Apocalypse Commentary, which he finished end of the 30s of the 15th century. At an advanced age, in the second half of the 50s, Heymerich finally wrote his Centheologicon in which he presented 100 different theologies, including those of Lull and Cusanus.

Effect

Both by linking Albertismus and Lullism as well as with his failed Koranic interpretation influenced Heymerich the young Nicholas of Cusa sustainable. Its best-known works, De docta ignorantia and De Pace Fidei, the approaches of the Dutch philosopher evolve consistently. Both thinkers exchanged between 1425 to 1460 to Heymerichs death of her writings. Therefore Heymerich is next to Nicholas of Cusa, a forerunner of the later Renaissance Platonism in Central Europe.