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Isidore of Seville

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Is·i·dore of Seville  (z-dôr, -dr), Saint 560?-636.
Spanish scholar and ecclesiastic. He wrote the encyclopedia Etymologiae, an important reference work throughout the Middle Ages.

Isidore of Seville [ˈɪzɪdɔː]
n
(Biographies / Isidore of Seville, Saint (?560-636) M, Spanish, RELIGION: clergyman, MISC: scholar, RELIGION: saint) Saint, Latin name Isidorus Hispalensis. ?560-636 ad, Spanish archbishop and scholar, noted for his Etymologies, an encyclopedia. Feast day: April 4


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Isidore of Seville has not been named the patron saint of then Internet and computing, as has been the online buzz since the beginning of the year.
Saint Isidore of Seville (556-636), who wrote a dictionary called Etymologies, "gave his work a structure akin to that of the database.
If encyclopedism from Isidore of Seville to Vincent of Beauvais encourages breadth, at its worst a massive assemblage and idle display of merely antiquarian interest, Dante pushes forward to discover depth, a knowledge that is not static but rather a process of growth in time.
 
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