Konstantin of the African (Constantinus Africanus, Arab name unknown) (* around 1020, probably in Karthago, "† 1087 in the monastery Monte Cassino) a layman brother of the Benediktinerordens and medical researcher were in the 11. Century.

Konstantin of the African was an Arab herb dealer and bereiste from Karthago from nearly 40 years the Orient, in order to gain knowledge in Arab medicine and pharmacy. 1075 he came to the medical school of Salerno, where he stated that the knowledge conditions of the medical literature were unsatisfactory there. On a further journey to Africa he collected medical works of the Greek-Arab world, before he established himself 1078 under abbott Desiderius finally in Monte Cassino and as a baptized layman brother its collected works, among other things also writings of Hippokrates and Galen, when into latin translated manuals. It justified thereby the outstanding call of the medicine school of Salerno.

Works

• Liber pantegni: Overview of the Greek-Arab welfare knowledge, divides into theory and practice
• Viaticus peregrinantis: Manual for travelers of physicians
• Megatechne: Book concerning the therapeutic methodology of the Galen
• De oculo: Eye diseases
• De stomacho: Gastroses
• De melancholia
• De coitu: over the sex life

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