Vives

Vives, JUAN LUIS (generally known as Ludovicus Vives), humanist, was born at Valencia in Spain, 6th March 1492. He studied philosophy at Paris, but, disgusted with the empty quibblings of scholasticism, turned to the study of the classics at Louvain, where he taught and wrote against scholasticism. Thence he was summoned (1523) to England to be the tutor of the Princess Mary, and he taught at Oxford. He was imprisoned for opposing the king's divorce, and after 1528 lived mostly at Bruges, where he died, 6th May 1540. Amongst his works are Satellitium Animi (1524; new ed. Vienna, 1884), De Disciplina, De Ratione Discendi, Linguae Latine Exercitatio (1539; very often reprinted), an important edition of Aristotle's De Anima, works on Virgil's Bucolics, on the support of the poor, and in defence of Christianity. He was suspected of Protestant tendencies.