Henry of Oyta explained
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
External links
Notes and References
- deutsche-biographie.de, Heinrich Totting von Oyta.
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- Book: Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes. Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology. 3 August 2012. 1999. BRILL. 978-90-04-11296-4. 323.
- Book: Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes. Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology. 3 August 2012. 1999. BRILL. 978-90-04-11296-4. 22.
- Book: Bernard McGinn. John Meyendorff. Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation. 3 August 2012. 1987. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 978-0-7102-1313-6. 113.
- Book: Annabel S. Brett. Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought. 3 August 2012. 16 October 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-54340-8. 31.
- Book: Hilde de Ridder-Symoens. A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages. 3 August 2012. 16 October 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-54113-8. 436.
- Book: Odd Langholm. The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power. 3 August 2012. 13 February 1998. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-62159-5. 205.
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