Franciscus Titelmans
Franciscus Titelmans was a Flemish Franciscan scholar, an opponent of Erasmus.
Life
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.Works
- Collationes quinque super Epistolam ad Romanos beati Pauli Apostoli. .
- Libri duodecim de consyderatione rerum naturalium.
- Tractatus de expositione mysteriorum missae. .
- Elucidatio in omnes psalmos iuxta veritatem vulgatae. .
- Annotationes ex Hebræo atque Chaldæo in omnes Psalmos.
