Pierre Mandonnet

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]

Pierre Mandonnet
Born	(1858-02-26)26 February 1858 Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Died	4 January 1936(1936-01-04) (aged 77) Le Saulchoir, Belgium
Occupation	Historian

Biography

Pierre Mandonnet was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme on 4 January 1936.^[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, (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]