Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz


Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
Bishop of Vigevano
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseVigevano (1673–1682)
Campagna and Satrianum (1657–1673)
SuccessorFerdinando de Rojas
Previous post(s)Grand-Vicar to the Archbishop of Prague
Orders
Consecration29 July 1567
by Cardinal Francesco Brancaccio
Personal details
Born23 May 1606
Madrid, Spain
Died8 September 1682
Vigevano, Italy
NationalitySpanish
Education
EducationUniversity of Alcalá
University of Salamanca
Old University of Leuven (Ph.D., 1629; Th.D., 1638)
Philosophical work
Era17th-century philosophy
Region
SchoolAristotelianism
Scholasticism
Probabilism
InstitutionsUniversity of Salamanca
Old University of Leuven
Main interestsMetaphysics, moral philosophy, mathematics, astronomy
Notable ideas
OccupationMathematician and theologian

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz OCist (Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, 23 May 1606 in Madrid — 7 or 8 September 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot, and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lobkowicz.