Hugh of Saint Victor

Hugh of Saint Victor (c. 1097; † February 11, 1141 ) was a Christian theologian of the Middle Ages.

Life

He came possibly from Ypres in Flanders, but received his training with the Canons Regular of Hamersleben and was in the Victorian tradition as axis. 1115 or 1118, he joined the school of the Augustinian Canons of St. Victor ( near Paris ), which was founded in 1108 by William of Champeaux. To 1133 he was head of the School and held this office until his death. As abbot of Saint-Victor, he is, in spite of later contrary to tradition, not detectable. Special events in his life that he seems to have very dedicated to the faith and doctrine, are not known.

Hugo is regarded as the spiritual founder of the associated with the name of St. Victor's intellectual tradition of Victorines, which is a rather platonic granted in the philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages as an Aristotelian orientation, and the literal in the history of medieval biblical exegesis for renewed efforts to the and historical understanding of the biblical text is available. He was in his theology, especially influenced by Augustine, according to the Augustine rule he lived, and played an important role in the medieval reception of mystical inspired works of Dionysius the Areopagite. His surviving in more than 3000 manuscripts works, some of which have been translated into several vernacular languages ​​since the 13th century have had a major influence on the theology, exegesis and philosophy of later centuries and also the medieval education.

In the Martinus library fragments of a handwritten parchment codex have been found as part of a targeted search that could be assigned to the Summa Sentences septem tractatibus distincta.

Works

• Didascalicon de studio Legendi (about: "Guide to the study of reading and laying out ", ca 1128 ); a kind of introduction or guide for the study of theology; Chapters 1-3 deal with the seven liberal arts, chapters 4-6 reading of Scripture. Edition: Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis Georg Reyser, not after 1474 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
• Edition: Thilo Offergeld (ed.): Didascalicon de studio Legendi: Study book, Latin- German, Freiburg (Breisgau ) [ ua]: Herder 1997 ( Fontes Christiani 27) with imprint of CH Buttimer edited from the Latin text, Washington 1939 ( = The University of America, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Latin, 10).

Remembrance

11 February Protestant calendar name.