Franciscus Titelmans Explained

Franciscus "Frans" Titelmans (Latin: Franciscus Titelmannus or Hasseltensis) (1502–1537) was a Franciscan scholar from the Habsburg Netherlands, and an intellectual opponent of Erasmus.^[1]

Life

He was born in Hasselt, and graduated M.A. at the University of Leuven in 1521. He was a dialectician influenced by Rudolph Agricola, and himself an influence on Petrus Ramus.^[2] He joined the Franciscan Order in 1523, and engaged in controversy with Erasmus over the interpretation of the Pauline Epistles in the period 1527 to 1530.^[3] He wrote a compendium on natural philosophy which was much reprinted.^[4]

He became a Capuchin in 1535 and moved to Italy, where he worked in a hospital for the incurably ill. He died at Anticoli di Campagna.^[5]

Works

• Collationes quinque super Epistolam ad Romanos beati Pauli Apostoli (Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1529). Available on Google Books.
• Libri duodecim de consyderatione rerum naturalium (Antwerp, Simon Cock, 1530).
• Tractatus de expositione mysteriorum missae (Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1530). Available on Google Books.
• Elucidatio in omnes psalmos iuxta veritatem vulgatae (Antwerp, Martin Lempereur, 1531). Available on Google Books.
• Annotationes ex Hebræo atque Chaldæo in omnes Psalmos (Antwerp, Simon Cock, 1531).

References

• Franaut page
• Article in Contemporaries of Erasmus
• Book: Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-39748-3 . Charles B. Schmitt . Quentin Skinner . Quentin Skinner . The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy . 1990.
• David A. Lines, "Teaching Physics in Louvain and Bologna: Frans Titelmans and Ulisse Aldrovandi", in Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Emidio Campi, Simone De Angelis, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton in cooperation with Rita Casale, Jürgen Oelkers and Daniel Tröhler (Geneva: Droz, 2008), pp. 183–203.

Notes and References

1. [A. G. Dickens]
2. [Walter J. Ong]
3. Schmitt-Skinner, p. 838.
4. Schmitt-Skinner, p. 796.
5. Schmitt-Skinner, p. 838.