Armand A. Maurer

Armand Augustine Maurer CSB (21 January 1915 – 22 March 2008) was an American Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and historian.

Biography

He was born at Rochester, New York, the son of Armand Maurer and his wife Louise (née Ribson). After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1938, he entered the novitiate in 1940 and made profession of vows on September 12, 1941. He taught English at Aquinas Institute, Rochester (1941–1942) and then returned to Toronto for theology. He was ordained priest in the Congregation of St. Basil on August 15, 1945 by Archbishop James Charles McGuigan.

He completed his doctoral programme at the University of Toronto in 1947 and was sent for post-doctoral studies in Paris. In 1949, Maurer was appointed to the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, where he spent the rest of his life engaged in research, publication and teaching. Concurrently he taught philosophy at St. Michaels' College and in the Graduate Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

In 1954 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research in mediaeval philosophy. In 1966 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He spent two terms teaching at the Basilian Center for Thomistic Studies in the University of St. Thomas.

Works

• Medieval Philosophy (1962)
• Thomas and Historicity (1979)
• About Beauty: A Thomistic Interpretation (1983)
• Being and Knowing: Studies in Thomas Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophers (1990)
• The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles (1999)

References

• Noone, Timothy B. (2008). "In Memoriam: Armand A. Maurer, C.S.B. (1915-2008)," Review of Metaphysics, Vol. LXII (1), pp. 241–42.
• Houser, R.E. (2007). " Armand Maurer: Discipline, Historian, Philosopher." In: Laudemus viros gloriosos: Essays in Honor of Armand Maurer, CSB. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.

External lijks

• Works by Armand A. Maurer at JSTOR
• Works by Armand A. Maurer at Gallica
• Works by Armand A. Maurer at Brepols