Pierre Mandonnet
Belgian historian (1858–1936)
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Pierre Mandonnet (26 February 1858 – 4 January 1936) was a French-born, Belgian Dominican historian, important in the neo-Thomist trend of historiography and the recovery of medieval philosophy.[1][2] He made his reputation with a study of Siger of Brabant.[3]
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Born26 February 1858
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Died4 January 1936 (aged 77)
Le Saulchoir, Belgium
OccupationHistorian
Pierre Mandonnet | |
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| Born | 26 February 1858 Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Died | 4 January 1936 (aged 77) Le Saulchoir, Belgium |
| Occupation | Historian |
Biography
Pierre Mandonnet was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dômeon 26 February 1858.[4][5]
In 1887 he was ordained as a priest, and from 1891 to 1919, was a professor of church history at the University of Fribourg. In 1902/03 he served as university rector.[6]
He died in Le Saulchoir on 4 January 1936.[4]
Works
- Les Dominicains et la découverte de l'Amérique, (1893)
- Siger de Brabant et l'averroïsme latin au xiiie siècle (2 volumes, 1908–11)
- Des écrits authentiques de S. Thomas d'Aquin (Authentic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas), Freibourg, (1910).
- Bibliographie thomiste (1921) with J. A. Destrez, later edition 1960.
- Dante le théologien ; introduction à l'intelligence de la vie, des œuvres et de l'art de Dante Alighieri (1935).[7]
- Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre (1921); translated into English in 1944 as St. Dominic and his work (2 parts).[8]
