Matija Ferkić or Matija Frkić (Italian: Matteo Ferchi, English: Matthew Ferchi (Ferkich); 1583 – 1669) was a Croatian Franciscan Conventual scholastic philosopher from Krk.

He was from the island of Krk (Italian: Veglia). He was a Scotist, and wrote a Vita et apologia Scoti, a life of Duns Scotus. He taught at the University of Padua for 35 years, from 1629.

He published the works of Philip Faber.

Works

• Apologiae pro Ioanne Duns Scoto doctore subtili libri tres:: in Ioannem Frideri* Matenesium, in Abrahamum Bzouium Polonum, in Paulum Iouium Nouocomensem, Bologna, typ. Sebastiano Bonomii, 1620.
• Vita Ioannis Dunsii Scoti, Bologna, typis N. Tebaldini, 1622; Napoli, typ. Giandomenico Roncalioli, 1629.
• Istri seu Danubii ortus aliorumque fluminum ab Aristotele in primo Meteoro inductorum. Accessit Lacus Asphal*is confirmatio, Padova, ex typ. B. Carectoni, 1632.
• Vestigationes peripateticae, Padova, typ. P. Frambotti, 1639.
• De Fabulis palaestini stagni ad aures Aristotelis, peripateticorum principis, Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1641.
• Osservationi sopra il Goffredo del signor Torquato T*o, Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1642.
• De Personis producentibus Spiritum Sanctum, Padova, 1644 .
• Ferkić, Matija (1646). De caelesti substantia et eius ortu ac motu in sententia Anaxagorae philosophi celeberrimi (in Latin). Venetiis. Giovanni Salis. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
• Defensio vestigationum peripateticorum ab offensionibus Belluti et Mastrii, Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1646.
• Epitome theologi* M.F. Veglensis ... ex Magistro Sententiarum et ... Jo. Scoto, a M.P.M. Rusca ... evulgatum, 4 vol., Padova, 1647.
• Oratio in Ioannem Dunsium Scotum Doctorem Subtilem declamata in Universitate Patavina die tertia novembris 1634, ed. Antonino Poppi, "La san*à di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel solco di Francesco d'*isi e Antonio di Padova", Il Santo. Rivista antoniana di storia, dottrina, arte 33/1 (1993), 121-133.

Notes

External links

• Jacob Schmutz. "Frkic, Mate". Scholasticon.
• Matija Frkić - an interpreter and critic of T*o