translator · scholar

Michael Scot

c. 1175–1236

Scottish scholar and court astrologer, in Toledo by 1217, then Bologna, the papal curia, and from about 1227 the court of Frederick II. He carried Averroes into Latin; only one of those translations bears his name, and stylometry credits him with the rest. Dante put him among the diviners in hell.

Crossings

c. 1220–1224 On the Soul , Arabic Latin · translator probable

Sources

Burnett, Charles (1994). Michael Scot and the Transmission of Scientific Culture from Toledo to Bologna via the Court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen.
Hasse, Dag Nikolaus (2010). Latin Averroes Translations of the First Half of the Thirteenth Century.