Quick Facts About Robert Grosseteste
- Born
- November 30, 1174
- Died
- October 9, 1253
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Profession
- Theologian
- Notable works
- The testament of the twelve patriarchs
- Known for
- Super epistolam ad Gallatas, Letters, Reules de garder et governer terres, Le chasteau d'amour, Summa Linconiensis super octo libris physicorum Aristotelis
About Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste, 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, but the association with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition. 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.
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