Albertus Magnus

c. 1200 – 15 November 1280

Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280), also known as Albert the Great, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, and bishop celebrated as one of the greatest medieval scholars. He championed the study of Aristotle and the natural sciences within Christian theology and was the teacher of Thomas Aquinas. He was declared a Doctor of the Church and is the patron saint of natural scientists.

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Born in Lauingen, Bavaria
c. 1200

Albert was born in Lauingen on the Danube in the Duchy of Bavaria, into a family of the ministerial class.

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Studied at the University of Padua
c. 1222

Albert studied liberal arts at Padua, where he encountered the Dominican order through Jordan of Saxony.

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Joined the Dominican Order
c. 1223

Albert entered the Order of Preachers, reportedly against the wishes of his family, and went on to study and teach theology in Germany.

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Became master of theology at the University of Paris
1245

Albert received his doctorate and taught as master of theology at Paris, where Thomas Aquinas became his student.

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Founded and led the Dominican studium generale in Cologne
1248

Albert was sent to Cologne to organize the Dominicans' first German house of general studies, taking Thomas Aquinas with him as a student.

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Elected provincial of the Dominican province of Teutonia
1254

Albert was made prior provincial of the German Dominican province, an office that required extensive travel on foot across the region.

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Appointed Bishop of Regensburg
1260 – 1263

Pope Alexander IV named Albert bishop of Regensburg; he resigned the see after about three years to return to teaching and writing.

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Defended the teachings of Thomas Aquinas after his death
c. 1277

In his final years in Cologne, Albert reportedly traveled to Paris to defend the orthodoxy of his late student Thomas Aquinas.

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Died in Cologne
15 November 1280

Albert died in the Dominican convent in Cologne, where his relics remain in the crypt of St. Andrew's Church.

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