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Armand A. Maurer
Father Armand A. Maurer, CSB (1915-2008) was a Canadian author and translator. Born on January 21, 1915, Fr. Maurer grew up in Irondequoit’s St. Thomas the Apostle Parish. He gradu...view moreFather Armand A. Maurer, CSB (1915-2008) was a Canadian author and translator. Born on January 21, 1915, Fr. Maurer grew up in Irondequoit’s St. Thomas the Apostle Parish. He graduated from Rochester’s Aquinas Institute in 1936 and taught English there from 1941-1942. After graduating from St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1938, he entered the Basilian congregation in 1940 and was ordained in 1945. He then completed in short order both his licentiate and doctoral degrees, graduating from the University of Toronto with his Ph.D. in 1947. After spending a period of post-doctoral study in Paris from 1947-1949, Fr. Maurer was appointed a fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1949, where he spent the rest of his life engaged in research, publishing and teaching. The recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship and learning, Fr. Maurer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1966, President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1979, and the recipient of the Association’s Aquinas Medal in 1987. He studied in Oxford, Paris and Rome, and he published dozens of scholarly articles and books on medieval philosophy. He died in Toronto on March 22, 2008, aged 93.
Étienne Gilson (1884-1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. Educated at the University of Paris, he became professor of medieval philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1921, and in 1932 was appointed to the chair in medieval philosophy at the College de France in 1932. In 1929, in conjunction with St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, he co-founded the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies with the members of the Congregation of Priests of St. Basil, in Toronto, Canada. He was elected to the Académie française in 1946 and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1959 and 1964). He died in 1978, aged 94.view less