Juan Luís Vives (March 6, 1492 – May 6, 1540), Spanish scholar, was born at Valencia. According to the 1997 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, as a teenager he saw his entire family wiped out by the Inquisition. He left Spain never to return, but how he escaped and why he was spared the Britannica does not say.

He studied at Paris from 1509 to 1512, and in 1519 was appointed professor of humanities at Catholic University of Leuven. At the instance of his friend Erasmus he prepared an elaborate commentary on Augustine's De Civitate Dei, which was published in 1522 with a dedication to Henry VIII. Soon afterwards he was invited to England, and acted as tutor to the Princess Mary, for whose use he wrote De ratione studii puerilis epistolae duae (1523).

While in England he resided at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was made doctor of laws and lectured on philosophy. Having declared himself against the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, he lost the royal favour and was confined to his house for six weeks. On his release he withdrew to Bruges, where he devoted the rest of his life to the composition of numerous works, chiefly directed against the scholastic philosophy and the preponderant unquestioning authority of Aristotle. The most important of his treatises is the De Causis Corruptarum Artium, which has been ranked with Bacon's Organon.

A complete edition of his works was published by Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar (Valencia, 1782). Adolfo Bonilla y San Martin's Luís Vives y la filosofla del renacimiento (Madrid, 1903) is a valuable and interesting study which includes an exhaustive bibliography of Vives's writings and a critical estimate of previous monographs. The best of these are AJ Namèche, "Mémoire sur la vie et les écrits de Jean Louis Vives" in Mémoires couronnis par l'Académie Royale des sciences et belles-tettres de Bruxelles (Brussels, 1841), vol. xv.; A Lange's article in the Encyklopädie des gesammten Erziehungs- und Unterrichtswesens (Leipzig, 1887), vol. ix.; Berthe Vadier, Un Moraliste du XVIieme siècle: Jean-Louis Vives et son livre de l'éducation de la femme chrétienne (Geneva, 1892) ; G Hoppe, Die Psychologie von Juan Luís Vives (Berlin, 1901).

Major works

• Contra Pseudodialecticos
• De Disciplinis
• De Causis Corruptarum Artium

References

1492 births | 1540 deaths | Rhetoricians | Spanish academics | Spanish philosophers | Valencian people

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