CORRADO OF HALBERSTADT. - Name of two Dominican writers on theological and historical subjects, whose birth and death years are unknown and whose literary legacy contains many unresolved problems.
The elder C. attended as definitor of the Saxon province the General Chapter held in Florence in 1321. The younger C. (d. after 1362) was lector at the Order’s Studium in Magdeburg in 1342 and 1350, master in theology in 1345, vicar in 1350, and provincial of the Saxon province in 1351–54.
The younger C. wrote: Glossemata super Iosue, De numero duodena, Liber similitudinum naturalium (agreeing in many parts of the first books with the Summa de exemplis et rerum similitudinibus by Helwic or with parts of the De similitudinibus rerum by John of San Gimignano), De origine regnorum et regno Romanorum, Chronographia summorum pontificum et imperatorum Romanorum; several works remain unpublished. He is said to be the author of the Summae studentium, De triclo, Commentary on Job, Sermons de tempore et de sanctis.
To either the elder or the younger C. are attributed the following works: Tripartitum per abecedarium sive loci communes theologici-morales, Quadripartitum morale, Mensa philosophica (Lübeck 1476 and then in 30 other editions, of great importance for the history of European culture), Concordantiae biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti (Nuremberg 1485 and often reprinted).