# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:04:33.948Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 12 February 1079, Peter Abelard rose as a leading logician and theologian in medieval France, teaching crowds and solving the problem of universals through nominalism and conceptualism. He took on a brilliant student, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, and their passionate relationship — and his eventual marriage to her — ended in scandal and tragedy. He pioneered intent in ethics, developed the concept of limbo, introduced the moral influence theory of atonement, and wrote The History of My Calamities, a publicly distributed letter that set the template for confessional autobiography and epistolary novels to come. He's been called the Descartes of the twelfth century and credited as a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza, and modern empiricism. He died 21 April 1142, leaving philosophy and a love story that outlasted both.