Peter Helias

Peter Helie (also: Helias or Hellias; * 1100, † by 1166 ) was a medieval linguist and philosopher of language. Peter Helie and was mainly active in Paris. Among his pupils were John of Salisbury and William of Tyre.

To 1146, he wrote the comment Summa super Priscianum to the Institutiones Grammaticae of the late antique Roman grammarian Priscian. In it, he draws the logical writings of Aristotle in the Organon approach to the explanation and substantiation of Latin grammar. Among his most important sources include the glose super Priscianum William of Conches. From his pen also comes a commentary on Cicero's De inventione, for which he relied on the rhetoric theory of Thierry of Chartres.

Expenditure

Peter Helias: Summa super Priscianum, ed. Leo A. Reilly, Toronto 1993