Little is known of his life apart from his work. He was born around 1265 in Scotland. According to tradition he was educated at Oxford with the Fransicans.
in 1302 he was lecturing at University in Paris on "Peter Lombard's Sentences" which is regarded as his greatest work.
He was expelled from there for siding with Pope Boniface VIII in a dispute with the King of France.
He developed a complex argument to prove the existance of God and argued for the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, a term much misunderstood by catholics and non catholics alike.
He died in 1308 and is buried in Cologne. His sarcophagus bears the legend in Latin.
"Scotland brought me forth. England sustained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me."
His reputation was sullied during the Reformation in England and Scotland. The name "dunces hat" was used to describe an idiot, someone incapable of learning.
Despite this, Scotism grew in Eurpope, with many Scotist Chairs in Universities in France and Spain.
Today he is regarded as one of the most famous Franciscan theologians, the founder of Scotism, a special form of Scholasticism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duns_Scotus
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05194a.htm
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