Remigius of Auxerre
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Remigius (Remi) of Auxerre (ca. 850-d. 908) was a Benedictine theologian and author.
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[edit] Biography
He was born about the middle of the ninth century; died in 908. Remigius was a disciple of the Irish teacher Dunchad of Reims, author of a treatise on astronomy, and of Eric, or Heirich, who was himself a disciple of Eriugena. He taught at the monastery of St-Germain, Auxerre, in Paris and at Reims.
As a teacher, Remigius interested himself in the problem of universals, and seems to have attempted a compromise between the extreme Realism of Eriugena and the Anti-Realism of his teacher Eric.
He also investigated the problem of the origin of the universe and gave a Christian interpretation to the passages in which Martianus Capella speaks of the invisible world of ideas.
[edit] Writings
He is the author of a number of glossaries and marginal commentaries on the Bible, on the grammar of Priscian, the "Opuscula Sacra" of Boethius, and the "De Nuptiis etc.", of Martianus Capella.
He also wrote a theological treatise, Ennarationes in Psalmos.
His glosses are of very great interest to the student of medieval Latin philology.
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[edit] Source
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
