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JUAN LUIS VIVES (1492-1540)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 153 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIVES (1492-1540)  , See also:Spanish See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Valencia on the 6th of See also:March 1492 . He studied at See also:Paris from 1509 to 1512, and in 1519 was appointed See also:professor of humanities at See also:Louvain . At the instance of his friend See also:Erasmus he prepared an elaborate commentary on See also:Augustine's De Civitate Dei, which was published in 1522 with a See also:dedication to See also:Henry VIII . Soon afterwards he was invited to See also:England, and is said to have acted as See also:tutor to the princess See also:Mary, for whose use he wrote De ratione studii puerilis epistolae duae (1523) . While in England he resided at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was made See also:doctor of See also:laws and lectured on See also:philosophy . Having declared himself against the See also:king's See also:divorce from See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon, he lost the royal favour and was confined to his See also:house for six See also:weeks . On his See also:release he withdrew to See also:Bruges, where he devoted himself to the See also:composition of numerous See also:works, chiefly directed against the scholastic philosophy and the preponderant authority of See also:Aristotle . The most important of his See also:treatises is the De Caucis corruptarum Artium, which has been ranked with See also:Bacon's See also:Organon . He died at Bruges on the 6th of May 1540 . A See also:complete edition of his works was published by Gregorio Mayans y Siscar (Valencia, 1782) . Adolfo Bonilla y See also:San See also:Martin s Luis See also:Vives y la filosofia del renacimiento (See also:Madrid, 19o3) is a valuable and interesting study which includes an exhaustive bibliography of Vives's writings and a See also:critical estimate of previous monographs . The best of these are A .

J . Nameche, " Memoire sur la See also:

vie et See also:les ecrits de See also:Jean See also:Louis Vives " in Memoires couronnds per l'Academie Royale See also:des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles (See also:Brussels, 1841), vol. xv.; A . See also:Lange's See also:article in the Encyklopddie des gesammten Erziehungsund Unterrichtswesens (See also:Leipzig, 1887), vol. ix.; Berthe Vadier, Un 1lloraliste du X VI siecle: Jean-Louis Vives et son livre de l'dducalion de la femme chretienne (See also:Geneva, 1892) ; G . Hoppe, See also:Die Psychologie von Juan Luis Vives (See also:Berlin, 1901) .

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