John Scotus Eriugena

John Scotus Eriugena, or Johannes Scotus Erigena (c. 815 – c. 877) is an Irish theologian, neoplatonist philosopher, and poet.

He writes a number of works, but is best known today for having written The Division of Nature, which has been called the final achievement of ancient philosophy.

Erigena argues on behalf of something like a pantheistic definition of nature.

He translates and makes commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius, and is one of the few European philosophers of his day that knows Greek; he has studied in Athens.

Famously, he is said to have been stabbed to death by his students at Malmesbury with their pens.

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