Peter of Kastl (c. 1400) was a Benedictine monk who very probably composed a translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524).
Biography The most important evidence for Peter's existence can be found in Andreas of Regensburg's Chronicon Generale (1422).
In the chronicles of the Upper Palatinate monastery of Reichenbach, there is also mention of a provost by the name of Peter in the entries for the years 1397, 1398, 1400, 1406 and 1408. This provost was identified in 1958 as the translator of the Consolatio Philosophiae mentioned by Andreas of Regensburg.Heribert Batzl, Kloster Reichenbach am Regen: Gründung, Wirtschafts- und Geistesgeschichte eines oberpfälzischen Benediktinerklosters. Dissertation: Universität Würzburg, 1958. Bd. II, p. 367. The translation was probably lost during the seventeenth century.Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., "Peter von Kastl. Fifteenth-Century Translator of Boethius." Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991), 133–142 An anonymous translation, that was printed around 1473 by Anton Koberger in NurembergBoethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus / Thomas <de Aquino>: De consolatione philosophiae, Nuremberg, [c. 1473] .Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, deutsch von Peter von Kastel in Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW numberGW04573) and reprinted in 1500 by Johann Schott in Strasbourg,Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: Von dem trost der weißheit; Strasbourg, 1500 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, German by Peter von Kastel in Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW number GW04575)Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: Von dem trost der weißheit. Tr. Peter von Kastl in Inkunabelkatalog INKABoethius: Der Trost der Weisheit. Translation: Peter von Kastel in Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, British Library is sometimes identified with Peter's translation. Though this is not completely impossible, it seems rather improbable for various reasons.Bernd Bastert: Kontinuitäten eines »Klassikers«. Zur spätmittelalterlichen deutschen Rezeption der ›Consolatio Philosophiae‹ des Boethius. In: Manfred Eikelmann, Udo Friedrich (ed.): Praktiken europäischer Traditionsbildung im Mittelalter: Wissen - Literatur - Mythos. Akademie Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, , 117–140, here 120 and 125–126 ().
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