biography
pronunciation:
[riymundoh]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1124–51)
|
| biography:
| Archbishop of Toledo, member of the Cluniac order, and founder of the so-called ‘school of translators’ in Toledo, a group of scholars whose work of disseminating Arabic, Hebrew, and Graeco-Roman sources was to be continued by Alfonso X ‘el Sabio’. The converted Jew Juan Hispalense translated books by Avicenna, al-Ghazali, and others into the vernacular, and Dominicus Gundisalvus of Segovia translated from the vernacular into Latin. These and their compatriots were well known as teachers in Europe at that time, and their students included Adelard of Bath and Michael Scotus (England), Herman (Germany), and Gerard of Cremona (Italy). Mediaeval Spanish writers drew on the literatures thus interpreted, and it is through the School of Toledo that W Europe first came to learn of Arab achievement in medicine, philosophy, grammar, astronomy, and other disciplines. |
|
|
