Michał Falkener

Michael Falkener^[1] (ca. 1450 or 1460 – 1534) was a Polish^[2] Scholastic philosopher.^[3].

Life

Michał Falkener was born in Silesia. In Latin—the language favored by medieval European scholars, and used in his works—he is sometimes referred to as "Vratislaviensis"^[4] or "Wratislaviensis" ("the Wrocławian") in addition to "Michaelis de Vratislauia"^[5] ("Michael of Wrocław"). In Polish he is, respectively, "Wrocławczyk" and "Michał z Wrocławia" ("Michael of Wrocław"). In German, the place identifier is "of Breslau"^[6]—"von Breslau"^[7] or "aus Breslau."^[8]

Falkener defended his master's thesis at the Kraków Academy in 1488. Later he lectured there on astronomy, astrology, mathematics, physics, logic and Aristotle's philosophy. His students included Nicolaus Copernicus.

Falkener's first printed astrological predictions were published for the years 1494–95; 1506 saw the first edition of his Introductorium astronomiae Cracoviensis elucidans almanach.

Falkener was a Thomist but an incomplete one since, in addition to Peripatetic-Thomist proofs for the existence of God, he also accepted St. Anselm's proofs.^[3]

See also

• History of philosophy in Poland
• List of Poles

Works

• Iudicium Cracoviense, Leipzig, 1494 [1] [2]
• Introductorium astronomie Cracoviense‎, 1507 [3]
• Introductorium Dyalecticae‎, Nuremberg, 1511 [4], Argentoratum/Strasbourg 1515 [5]

Literature

• Ludwik Nowak, Michael Falkener de Vratislavia, Congestum logicum, Introductonium dialecticae, published by Akademia Teologii Katolickiej (Academy of Catholic Theology), 1990.

Notes

1. ^ Norman Davies, Roger Moorhouse: Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, Jonathan Cape, 2002 ISBN 0224062433, 9780224062435 585 pages p. 134
2. ^ http://ptta.pl/pef/reviews.pdf
3. ^ ^{a b} Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), volume one, p. 312.
4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=0&q=%22Michael+Vratislaviensis%22&btnG=Search+Books
5. ^ http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=0&q=%22Michaelis+de+Vratislauia%22&btnG=Search+Books
6. ^ http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Michael+of+Breslau%22&btnG=Search+Books
7. ^ http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Michael+von+Breslau%22&btnG=Search+Books
8. ^ http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Michael+aus+Breslau%22&as_brr=0

References

• Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), volume one, Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.

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