Bartholomeus Anglicus
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (also: Bartholomew of England, Bartholomew the Englishman, * 1190, † after 1250 ) was a Franciscan scholastics and author of De proprietatibus rerum, a forerunner of the encyclopedia and one of the first Dictionary of the Middle Ages, which takes into account the plant world.
He was formerly confused with Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla.
Life
About Bartholomaeus ' life is not much known. In 1230 he was charitably as " baccalaureus biblicus " in Paris in teaching, a year later he went as a lecturer to Magdeburg, where he wrote De rerum proprietatibus