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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 800, John Scotus Eriugena studied Greek in Ireland at a time when the language had nearly vanished from Western Europe. He succeeded Alcuin of York as head of the Palace School at Aachen and translated the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. His major work, De Divisione Naturae, set out to unfold the entire structure of reality from the concept of physis — "all things which are and which are not" — through a dialectical method that wove together the human mind and the divine logos. Scholars have called it the final achievement of ancient philosophy, a synthesis of fifteen centuries, and noted that Eriugena reinvented most of Neoplatonism's core theses while drawing almost exclusively from Christian sources. He died around 877; a later legend claims his students stabbed him to death with their pens at Malmesbury, though this is likely allegory.