13th-century Bishop of Lincoln, astrologer, scientist, and philosopher
Robert Grosseteste
Bishop of Lincoln
An early 14th-century portrait of Grosseteste[1]
Installed
1235
Term ended
1253
Predecessor
Hugh of Wells
Successor
Henry of Lexington
Personal details
Born
c. 1168–70
Stow,[2] Suffolk
Died
8 or 9 October 1253 (aged about 85) Buckden, HuntingdonshirePhilosophy career
Era
Medieval philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Scholasticism
Main interests
Theology, natural philosophy
Notable ideas
Theory of scientific demonstration
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Sainthood
Feast day
9 October
Venerated in
Anglican Communion
Robert Grosseteste[n 1] (/ˈɡroʊstɛst/GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168-70 – 8 or 9 October 1253),[11] also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk (according to the early 14th-century chronicler Nicholas Trevet), but the associations with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition.[12] Upon his death, he was revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". As a theologian, however, he contributed to increasing hostility to Jews and Judaism, and spread the accusation that Jews had purposefully suppressed prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ, through his translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
^Brev. Hist. Ang. Scot. &c. (Harleian MS 3860, f. 48).
^Richard of Bardney in his work 'The Life of Robert Grosstête' gives Stow as Grosseteste's birthplace, without mentioning Suffolk. R. W. Southern (1986, p. 77) notes that there are three Stows in Suffolk.
^Steven P. Marrone, William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste: New Ideas of Truth in Early Thirteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 146.
^Charles Edwin Butterworth, Blake Andrée Kessel (eds.), The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy Into Europe, BRILL, 1994, p. 55.
^Hackett, Jeremiah M.G. (1997), "Roger Bacon: His Life, Career, and Works", Roger Bacon and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, No. 57, Leiden: Brill, p. 10, ISBN 90-04-10015-6
^Edith Wilks Dolnikowski, Thomas Bradwardine: A View of Time and a Vision of Eternity in Fourteenth Century Thought, BRILL, 1995, p. 101 n. 4.
^Tom Sorell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 155 n. 93.
^G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (London: Oxford UP, 1971), p. 65.
^"Grosseteste, Robert (1168–1253)", CERL Thesaurus.
^Grosseteste, Robert 1175?–1253", OCLC WorldCat Identities.
^Lewis 2019 has 1168, Southern 2010 has 1170
^Giles E. M. Gasper, et al, Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's "De artibus liberalibus" ("On the Liberal Arts") and "De Generatione Sonorum" ("On the Generation of Sounds)" (Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 9–35 and 199–225.
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