Robert Grosseteste
13th-century Bishop of Lincoln, astrologer, scientist, and philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Grosseteste[n 1] (/ˈɡroʊstɛst/ GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168-70 – 8 or 9 October 1253),[6] 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.[7] 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.
Robert Grosseteste | |
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Bishop of Lincoln | |
Installed | 1235 |
Term ended | 1253 |
Predecessor | Hugh of Wells |
Successor | Henry of Lexington |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1168–70 |
Died | 8 or 9 October 1253 (aged about 85) Buckden, Huntingdonshire Philosophy career |
Era | Medieval philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Scholasticism |
Main interests | Theology, natural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Theory of scientific demonstration |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 9 October |
Venerated in | Anglican Communion |