Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino [1]) was a physician who lived in the 11th century.The first part of his life was spent in North Africa and the rest in Italy.He first arrived in Italy in the coastal town of Salerno, home of the Schola Medica Salernitana, where his work attracted attention from the local Lombard and Norman rulers. Today, Constantine the African. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. This is the typescript of a biography of Constantine the African (d. before 1098/99) composed by a near contemporary, the monk at Monte Cassino, Peter the Deacon. Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus) (c. 1020 – 1087) was an eleventh-century translator of Greek and Islamic medical texts. It includes not only a brief account of Constantine's life, but also a list of 23 Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus) (1017, Kairouan – 1087, Monte Cassino) was a Tunisian doctor of the eleventh century.The first part of his life was spent in Tunisia and the rest in Italy.In Salerno, Italy, he became a professor of medicine and his work attracted widespread attention. Those writings, collectively, probably comprise over … His name, Africanus, comes from the place of his nativity, Carthage in Africa.Early in life he devoted himself to the study of medicine, and as was the custom of the times made distant journeys, some of which brought him into the Far East.He became familiar with the Oriental languages and studied Arabian literature very deeply. It'd been under Moslem rule for over a century. Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century.The first part of his life was spent in North Africa and the rest in Italy.He first arrived in Italy in the coastal town of Salerno, home of the Schola Medica Salernitana, where his work attracted attention from the local Lombard and Norman rulers. Constantinus Africanus (Constantine the African) is likely the most famous medieval writer most people have never heard of. Evidence that Constantine the African arrived in Southern Italy at a time when there was already a great interest in learning from the Arabs. Constantinus Africanus (kŏn'stəntī`nəs ăfrĭkā`nəs), c.1010–1087, medical translator and Benedictine monk.The life of Constantinus before his arrival at Salerno c.1070 is obscure. Salerno was a part of the Kingdom of Sicily, in AD 1060. As a Christian he had a good knowledge of Latin, enabling him to translate medical works into that language from Arabic. 277-94. A medieval medical writer and teacher; born c. 1015; died c. 1087. At latest count, we can identify at least 1000 extant manuscript copies of his three dozen writings on various aspects of medicine.

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