Martin of Dacia

Martin of Dacia (Martinus Dacus, Martinus de Dacia, Morten Mogensen, ca. 1240 - August 10, 1304) was a Danish scholar and theologian. He authored De Modi significandi (ca. 1270), an influential treatise on grammar. [1] [2]

Biography

Morten Mogensen was born at Ribe in Jutland probably in the late 1240s or early 1250s. Mogensen received his theological doctorate in Paris where he obtained the degree of a Magister artium and Magister theologiae. From the 1290s, he held a Prebendary as Canon of the Ribe Cathedral in the Ribe diocese as well as Provost of Schleswig and Canon of Lund. In Schleswig, Mogensen established a vicarage in the parish of Sywertmanrip. [3]

Mogensen was mentioned in 1288 as royal chancellor of Danish King Eric VI Menved (reign 1286 –1319). In the dispute between Jens Grand, Archbishop of Lund, and King Eric VI Menved, Mogensen arranged a royal rapprochement to Pope Boniface VIII, which in 1302 resulting in a settlement of the dispute. In 1302 he gave a donation to the chapter of Notre Dame in Paris. He founded an altar for the cathedral in Roskilde in 1303. Mogensen died during 1304 in Paris and was buried at Notre Dame.[4] [5][6]

Name

The rendering of his name, Morten Mogensen, into Medieval Latin as Martinus de Dacia stems from the fact that, during the Middle Ages, the toponym Dania meaning Denmark, was occasionally confused with the historic region of Dacia in the Balkans.

Works
  • Danicorum Medii Aevi
  • De Modi significandi des Martinus de Dacia
  • Quaestiones super Artem Veterem

See also

References
  1. "Mogensen, Morten (Martinus de Dacia)". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  2. Franco Alessio (1956). "Martini De Dacia: "De Modis Significandi"". Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia. 11 (2): 174–205. JSTOR 44020411.
  3. "Martinus de Dacia". Roskilde Historie. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  4. "Kong Erik VI Menved". Danmarks Konger. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  5. "Jens Grand". Roskilde Historie. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  6. "Martinus de Dacia". Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin. Retrieved August 1, 2020.

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