Albertus Magnus

Type Figure Region Germany Time c. 1200–1280 Also known as Albertus Magnus、Albert the Great、Universal Doctor

German Dominican theologian and natural philosopher, born c. 1200 in Lauingen, died 1280 in Cologne;…

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1260–1262Regensburg · BavariaAppointed Bishop of Regensburg in 1260, he oversaw diocesan affairs and church reform, resigning the bishopric in 1262 to return to academic life.
1263–1270Cologne · North Rhine-WestphaliaBack in Cologne he continued teaching theology and Aristotelian natural philosophy at the Dominican studium, completing a vast body of commentaries covering zoology, botany, and mineralogy, training a new generation of scholastic scholars whose influence spread across Europe.

Albertus Magnus — Ferdinand J. Coffey (1907) https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01264a.htm
Albertus Magnus — James A. Weisheipl (2019) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-great/