Hugh of Saint Victor wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Hugh of Saint Victor as German-French canon regular and theologian.
Hugh of Saint Victor was born at Duchy of Saxony in 1096. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Saxony.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
Among his principal works are De institutione novitiorum, De tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum and Chronicon. Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from Duchy of Saxony matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Hugh of Saint Victor died in 1141, aged 45. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: De institutione novitiorum
- Notable work: De tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
- Notable work: Chronicon
- Notable work: De sacramentis Christianae fidei
- Fields: philosophy
