Juan Alfonso Curiel

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Juan Alfonso de Curiel (died 28 September 1609) was a Spanish professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. [1] [2]

Curiel was born in Palenzuela, Burgos to Juan Curiel de la Torre, son of Juan de Curiel. He received his formal education at the University of Salamanca. [3] [4]

At Salamanca, Curiel was the tutor to John Barnes, the English Benedictine monk, and "was wont to call Barnes by the name of John Huss, because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him." [5] [6]

After his death, much of his writing was published by Salamanca and the Complutense University of Madrid, including Controuersiarum Sapientiss in 1611.

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References

  1. "Curial (or Curiel), Juan Alfonso from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia". McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  2. "Curiel, Juan Alfonso - Scholasticon". scholasticon.msh-lse.fr. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. "Juan Alfonso Curiel". uc3m, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  4. Curiel, Juan; Hernández, Margarita Torremocha (2012-01-01). Compendio de los felices progresos de la Universidad de Salamanca de Juan Curiel (1717) (in Spanish). Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISBN   978-84-9012-156-6.
  5. Dictionary of National Biography: Baker - Beadon. 1885.
  6. The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others]. 1812.