Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard (Lt: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; Fr: Pierre Abélard) (1079 – April 21, 1142), the medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminent logician

Legal name, Full name

"Peter Abelard"

Born

1079, Nantes

Died

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1142, April 1142, April 21st 1142, France, Europe,  …

the EU, the world, the Eurozone, Western Europe, the Northern Hemisphere, Bourgogne, Saône-et-Loire, Chalon-sur-Saône, Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia, the G8, US postal Group 5, the UK European postal area, the Central European Time region

Wrote

Sic et Non

Occupation

theologian

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard

Spouse

Heloise

Gender

male, female

Nationality

french

Last Name

"Abelard"

First Name

"Peter"

Age at Death

between 62 years and 4 months and 63 years and 3 months old

Class

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musician, composer, person, writer, poet,  …

linguistic scientist, musical act, theologian, philosopher, author

Husband

Durandus of Saint-Pourçain

Did

die (April 21st 1142)

Buried

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Influenced

William of Ockham

Died During

January 1st 1140, 00:00 - December 31st 1149, 23:59

Attributes

male

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Related Websites

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http://www.ontology.co/biblio/abelard-editions.htm, http://www.ontology.co/biblio/abelard-biblio-two.htm, http://www.ontology.co/biblio/abelard-biblio-one.htm, http://www.ontology.co/abelard.htm, http://www.heraldav.co.uk/havpcd168-Abelard_Hymns_and_Sequences_for_Heloise,  …

http://librivox.org/the-love-letters-of-abelard-and-heloise-by-peter-abelard-and-heloise, http://www.iep.utm.edu/abelard, http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=a&word=ABELARD.PETER, http://www.abelard.org/abelard/abel-hi.htm, http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aah/index.htm, http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/miscellaneous/Abelard.DLB.pdf, http://www.abelard.org/france/le-pallet.php, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050505.shtml, http://www.formalontology.it/abelard.htm

Influences

Aristotle, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Porphyry

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Abelard

Rare Terms

"abelard", "ab"

Influence

Porphyry

Quotes

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."; "It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth."

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