SIMON OF HEINTUN. - English Dominican theologian of the 13th century. He held the chair of theology at Oxford (1248-54), succeeding R. Fishacre, of whom he was probably a disciple.

Elected provincial of England, he was deposed for insubordination and sent to Cologne as lector (1261-62) to replace St. Albert the Great, who had been elected bishop of Regensburg; but he was soon reinstated (1262).

His principal works are: Postilla on the Minor Prophets (Oxford, New Coll. 45, pos. 211 ff.) and Quaestiones disputatae (manuscript in the Summa Abendoneensis, British Museum); Ad instructionem inniorum, published in 1606 in the Opera omnia of G. Gerson. It is a manual of practical theology that enjoyed enormous diffusion in the 14th-15th centuries.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Exreptiones a Summa p. Simonis de H., extracts edited by A. Walz, in Angelicum, 13 (1936), pp. 283-368; A. Dondaine, La Somme de S. d. H., in Recherches de l'héd. anc. et méd., 9 (1937), pp. 5-22, 205-18; P. Glorieux, s. v. in DThC, XIV, coll. 2121-23.

Antonino Silli

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Simon of Heintun

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