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
Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosoph ...
. He made his reputation with a study of
Siger of Brabant
Siger of Brabant (''Sigerus'', ''Sighier'', ''Sigieri'' or ''Sygerius de Brabantia''; c. 1240 – before 10 November 1284) was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries who was an important proponent of Averroism.
Life ...
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Biography
Pierre Mandonnet was born in
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme
Beaumont (Auvergnat: ''Biaumont'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. The commune lies to the south of the dormant volcano, the Puy-de-Dôme (10 km from the commune and the city) which i ...
on 4 January 1936.
[Pierre Mandonnet (1858-1936): nom en religion]
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
In 1887 he was ordained as a priest, and from 1891 to 1919, was a professor of church history at the
University of Fribourg
The University of Fribourg (french: Université de Fribourg; german: Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland.
The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisi ...
. In 1902/03 he served as
university rector.
He died in
Le Saulchoir
Le Saulchoir is a Dominican school of theology in the order's province of France, established 1904.
After the expulsion from France in 1880, French Dominican friars went into exile in Spain and Austria; they were allowed to return in 1895, estab ...
on 4 January 1936.
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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).
*''Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre'' (1921); translated into English in 1944 as ''St. Dominic and his work'' (2 parts).St. Dominic and his work
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1858 births
1936 deaths
Belgian Dominicans
20th-century Belgian historians
Academic staff of the University of Fribourg
People from Puy-de-Dôme
Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia
19th-century Belgian historians