Biography:Henry of Oyta
Henry of Oyta (German: Heinrich Totting von Oyta; c. 1330 – 1397) was a German theologian and nominalist philosopher.
Life
He was born at Friesoythe in present-day Lower Saxony.[1] Henry graduated M.A. at the University of Prague in 1355. He was then rector of a school in Erfurt, and returned to Prague in 1366.[2] In the course of a long-running dispute, Adalbert Ranconis accused him of heresy in 1369–70.[3] He began teaching at the University of Paris in 1377.[4] For reasons connected with the Western Schism, he left Paris in 1381;[5] he then taught at Prague, 1381 to 1381, lecturing there on the Psalms and Gospel of John.[4][6] He was at the University of Vienna from 1384(?) to 1390;[7] he drew up the statutes there in 1389, with Henry of Langenstein.[8]
He died in Vienna.
Works
- Tractatus de contractibus[9]
Around 1374 he abridged the Sentences commentary of Adam Wodeham.[10]
See also
Notes
- ↑ (in German) deutsche-biographie.de, Heinrich Totting von Oyta.
- ↑ Mordechai Feingold (20 July 2006). History of Universities: Volume XXI/1. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-19-929738-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=anGQ4QTBCX0C&pg=PA212. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Stefan Swieżawski (1997) (in fr). Les tribulations de l'ecclésiologie à la fin du Moyen Age. Editions Beauchesne. p. 17 note 64. ISBN 978-2-7010-1351-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=fUPIAwgkLfwC&pg=PA17. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes (1999). Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology. BRILL. p. 323. ISBN 978-90-04-11296-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=64h0Y-lLB7AC&pg=PA323. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes (1999). Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology. BRILL. p. 22. ISBN 978-90-04-11296-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=64h0Y-lLB7AC&pg=PA22. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Bernard McGinn; John Meyendorff (1987). Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7102-1313-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=8rkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Annabel S. Brett (16 October 2003). Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-521-54340-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Dt2yRMI8HKMC&pg=PA31. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (16 October 2003). A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-521-54113-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA436. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Odd Langholm (13 February 1998). The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power. Cambridge University Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-521-62159-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=sTMvElDGCo0C&pg=PA205. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ↑ Basil Studer (15 March 2008). History of Theology: The Middle Ages. Liturgical Press. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-8146-5916-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=2o5V2GWlaFIC&pg=PA500. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
External links
- "Heinrich Totting von Oyta" at Deutsche Biographie (in German)
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