Matthias Qualle (1470–1518; Slovenized as ''Matija Hvale''), was a Slovene philosopher. Between 1502 and 1514 he taught philosophy at the

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's Faculty of Arts, and in 1510 he served as the faculty's

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.Simoniti, Primož. 1979. ''Humanizem na Slovenskem in slovenski humanisti do srede XVI. stoletja.'' Ljubljana: Slovenska matica.

Life and work

Qualle was born in

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, in present-day

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. He started studying at Vienna in 1491, where he became a teacher. He was a mentor to, and later a colleague of, the Swiss

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and reformer

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. Sodnik, Alma. 1975. ''Izbrani filozofski spisi.'' Ljubljana: Slovenska matica. In 1513, his ''Commentarii in parvulum philosophiae naturalis'' (On the Origins of the Philosophy of Nature) was printed in

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. It is considered the first known

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book written by a Slovene author. Qualle died in

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References

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