Constantine the African

Constantine the African

 Latin Constantinus Africanus

(born c. 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 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, 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.