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William of Ockham biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William of Ockham

Author Name:

William of Ockham

Born As:

Other Names:

Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings. Venerabilis Inceptor, Worthy Beginner, Doctor Invincibilis Unconquerable Teacher.

Born:

1288

Died:

09 Apr 1348




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Franciscan friar and sympathizer, Scholastic Philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Philosophical writings:

Summa logicae - c 1323, Paris 1448, Bologna 1498, Venice 1508, Oxford 1675
Quaestiones in octo libros physicorum - before 1327, Rome 1637
Summulae in octo libros physicorum - before 1327, Venice 1506
Quodlibeta septem - before 1327, Paris 1487
Expositio aurea super artem veterem Aristotelis, 1323
Major summa logices, Venice 1521
Quaestiones in quattuor libros sententiarum, Lyons, 1495
Centilogium theologicum, Lyons 1495

Theological writings:

Questiones earumque decisiones, Lyons 1483
Quodlibeta septem, Paris 1487, Strasbourg 1491
Centilogium, Lyons 1494
De sacramento altaris and De corpore christi, Strasbourg 1491, Venice 1516
Tractatus de sacramento allans

Political writings:

Opus nonaginta dierum - 1332, Leuven 1481, Lyons 1495
Dialogus* - begun in 1332 Paris 1476 Lyons 1495
Super potestate summi pontificis octo quaestionum decisiones - 1344
Tractatus de dogmatibus Johannis XXII papae - 1333–34
Epistola ad fratres minores - 1334
De jurisdictione imperatoris in causis matrimonialibus, Heidelberg 1598
Breviloquium de potestate tyrannica - 1346
De imperatorum et pontifcum potestate [also known as 'Defensorium'] - 1348.                          
                          
One of the first medieval authors to advocate a form of church-state separation, and was important for the early development of the notion of property rights.                          
Believed to have been born in Ockham, a village in Surrey.

Scholars thought that Ockham was summoned before the Papal court of Avignon in 1324 under charges of heresy.

Confined to a Franciscan house for two years and then condemned as a heretic in 1326.

An alternative theory recently proposed by George Knysh suggests that William was initially appointed as professor of philosophy in the Franciscan school, and that his disciplinary difficulties did not begin until 1327.

Escaped from Avignon to Munich, Germany and become a patron to King Louis IV of Bavaria.

Patronage from King Louis, Ockham supported the King to have supreme control over church and state in the Holy Roman Empire.  Ockham was excommunicated by Pope John XXII.