Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher · United Kingdom · On the map · Religious Figures · Lived 1168 to 1253 · aged 85
Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk, but the association with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition.
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![An image of Grosseteste from a late-14th-century illuminated manuscript.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Grosseteste-color.png)
An image of Grosseteste from a late-14th-century illuminated manuscript.[8]
A 19th-century portrait of Robert Grosseteste in stained glass
Grosseteste's tomb and chapel in Lincoln Cathedral
Optic studies from Roger Bacon's De multiplicatione specierum. The diagram shows light being refracted by a spherical glass container full of water.About this person
Upon his death, he was revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". As a theologian, however, he contributed to increasing hostility to Jews and Judaism, and spread the accusation that Jews had purposefully suppressed prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ, through his translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
