Cordova, Alfonso De

Cordova, Alfonso de a Spanish theologian, was born at Salamanca in the latter half of the 15th century. He studied medicine at Paris, was first to introduce the doctrine of nominalism into the University of Salamanca, and died in 1542, leaving Principia Dialectices in Terminos Suppositiones Consequentias (Salamanca, 1519). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.