Name Franciscus Titelmans | Died 1537 | |
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Franciscus Titelmans (also Frans Titelmans; Latin: Franciscus Titelmannus or Hasseltensis) (1502–1537) was a Flemish Franciscan scholar, an opponent of Erasmus.
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He was born in Hasselt, and graduated M.A. at the University of Leuven in 1521. He was a dialectician influenced by Rudolph Agricola, and himself an influence on Petrus Ramus. He joined the Franciscan Order in 1523, and engaged in controversy with Erasmus over the interpretation of the Pauline Epistles in the period 1527 to 1530. He wrote a compendium on natural philosophy which was much reprinted.
He became a Capuchin in 1535 and moved to Italy, where he worked in a hospital for the incurably ill. He died at Anticoli di Campagna.
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