Isidore of Seville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isidore of Seville

bishop, confessor and doctor of the Catholic Church

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain

Date of Death: 04-Apr-0636

Profession: writer, historian, Catholic priest, cleric, philosopher, musicologist, music theorist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Saint Isidore of Seville (; Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; Seville, c.
560 – Seville, 4 April 636), was a scholar and, for over three decades, Archbishop of Seville.
He is widely regarded, in the oft-quoted words of the 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world."At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville, and continuing after his brother's death.
He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania.
Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.
The Visigothic legislation that resulted from these councils influenced the beginnings of representative government.His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.