Latin Constantinus Africanus
born с 1020, Carthage or Sicily
died 1087, monastery of Monte Cassino, near Cassino, Principality of Benevento
Medieval medical scholar.
He was the first to translate Arabic medical works into Latin. His 37 translated books included The Total Art , a short version of the The Royal Book by the 10th-century Persian physician ʽAlī ibn al-ʽAbbās, introducing Islam's extensive knowledge of Greek medicine to the West. His translations of Hippocrates and Galen first gave the West a view of Greek medicine as a whole.