Isidore of Seville

Also known as Saint Isidore of Seville, Isidor of Seville, St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Isidorus Hispalensis

Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop (c. 560–636)

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Isidore of Seville was a highly influential Spanish scholar and bishop who lived in the early medieval period and compiled vast amounts of knowledge from classical and Christian sources into organized written works. His encyclopedic writings became foundational texts throughout the Middle Ages, helping preserve and transmit ancient learning to later generations during a time when such knowledge might otherwise have been lost.

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Died: 636
Works: 129

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Codicis legum Wisigothorum libri XII
Isidors Synonyma (II, 50-103) im Papyrus Nr.226 der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen
[Codex ms. 178 St. John's College library, Oxford]
Epistolae ad Florentinam
Evclidis Elementorvm geometricorvm libros tredecim

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Spain
Active from: 0560
Active to: 0636-04-04

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Isidore of Seville, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The Castilian version of the book V of the Etymologies of San Isidoro

Isidorus Super Pentateuchum

The cloud of the West, life and virtues of the venerable... Fr. Paul of Cadiz, preacher... Capuchin

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Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".

At a time of disintegration of classical culture, aristocratic violence, and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after Leander's death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.