Thomas de Cantimpré

Thomas de Cantimpré , born in 1201 close to Brussels and dead the May 15th 1272.

In 1232, it enters the order of Dominique Saint to Leuwen. The following year, it leaves to Cologne to continue its theological studies under the aegis of Albert Large the. Four years later, it goes to Paris where it continues its formation. It goes back to Leuwen in 1240 where it teaches the Philosophie and theology.

Its most important work is Bonum universale of apibus where the Abeille S are used as allegorical elements.

He is as the author of De Naturis Rerum , a compilation of other old but realized with less smoothness and of critical spirit as that of Vincent of Beauvais. This last work will inspire a little later Konrad von Megenberg.

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