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Name
  
Peter Helias

Died
  
1166, Poitiers, France

Books
  
Summa super Priscianum


Peter Helias (Latin: Petrus Helias or Helyas; c. 1100 – after 1166) was a medieval priest and philosopher. Born in Poitiers, he became a pupil of Thierry of Chartres at Paris in the 1130s, also teaching grammar and rhetoric in his school. Around 1155 he returned to Poitiers where he later died.

Through Thierry, he is meant to have been influenced particularly by Boethius; other influences include William of Conches. He contributed to the theory of substance and influenced Roger Bacon's Overview of Grammar.

In linguistics, he is regarded as having contributed ideas key to the development of grammatical categories such as parts of speech.

Works

  • a commentary on Cicero's De inventione
  • c. 1150: Summa super Priscianum, an updated textbook on Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, edited by Leo A. Reilly, Toronto 1993
  • References

    Peter Helias Wikipedia