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Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus[a] OP (c. 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia[4] or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval philosophers and thinkers.[5]

"Albertus" redirects here. For other uses, see Albertus (disambiguation).

Saint

Albertus Magnus

OP

c. 1200[1]
Lauingen, Duchy of Bavaria

15 November 1280
Cologne, Holy Roman Empire

Catholic Church

1622, Rome, Papal States by Pope Gregory XV

16 December 1931, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI

St. Andrew's Church, Cologne

15 November

Dominican habit, mitre, book, and quill

Those who cultivate the natural sciences, medical technicians, philosophers, and scientists

Albertus Teutonicus, Albertus Coloniensis, Albert the Great, Albert of Cologne

Systematic study of minerals
Discovery of the element arsenic

University of Padua

Medieval philosophy

Western philosophy

University of Paris

Jordan of Saxony

Thomas Aquinas, Petrus Ferrandi Hispanus

Christianity

Catholic Church

Bishop of Regensburg

Canonized in 1931, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus; late in his life the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name.[6] Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages.[7] The Catholic Church distinguishes him as one of the Doctors of the Church.

De meteoris, 1488

De meteoris, 1488

On Fate, translated by D.P. Curtin (Philadelphia, PA: Dalcassian Publishing Company: 2023) [translation of De fato]

On Resurrection, translated by Irven M. Resnick and Franklin T. Harkins (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press: 2020) [translation of De resurrectione]

On the Body of the Lord, translated by Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, OP (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press: 2017) [translation of De corpore Domini]

On the Causes of the Properties of the Elements, translated by Irven M. Resnick (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2010) [translation of Liber de causis proprietatum elementorum]

Questions concerning Aristotle's on Animals, translated by Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008) [translation of Quaestiones super De animalibus]

The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas, Albert, and Philip the Chancellor, translated by R. E. Houser (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 2004) [contains the translations of Parisian Summa, part six: On the good and Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, book 3, dist. 33 & 36]

The Commentary of Albertus Magnus on Book 1 of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, edited by Anthony Lo Bello (Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003) [translation of Priumus Euclidis cum commento Alberti]

On Animals: A Medieval Summa Zoologica, translated by Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick (Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) [translation of De animalibus]

Paola Zambelli, The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma: Astrology, Theology, and Science in Albertus Magnus and His Contemporaries (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992) [includes Latin text and English translation of Speculum astronomiae]

Albert & Thomas: Selected Writings, translated by , Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) [contains translation of Super Dionysii Mysticam theologiam]

Simon Tugwell

On Union with God, translated by a Benedictine of Princethorpe Priory (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1911) [reprinted as (Felinfach: Llanerch Enterprises, 1991) and (London: Continuum, 2000)] [translation of De adherendo Deo]

Christian mysticism

List of Catholic saints

List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

Saint Albert the Great, patron saint archive

Science in the Middle Ages

Collins, David J. "Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages." Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 1 (2010): 1–44.

Honnefelder, Ludger (ed.) Albertus Magnus and the Beginnings of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West. From Richardus Rufus to Franciscus de Mayronis, (collection of essays in German and English), Münster Aschendorff, 2005.

Jong, Jonathan. , in: St Mary Magdalen School of Theology, Thinking Faithfully.

"Albert the Great: Patron Saint of Scientists"

Kovach, Francis J. & Shahan, Robert W. Albert the Great. Commemorative Essays, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

Lemay, Helen Rodnite. Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De secretis mulierum with Commentaries. SUNY Series in Medieval Studies. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.

Miteva, Evelina. , in: Philosophia: E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 1/2012. ISSN 1314-5606.

"The Soul between Body and Immortality: The 13th Century Debate on the Definition of the Human Rational Soul as Form and Substance"

Resnick, Irven (ed.), A Companion to Albert the Great: Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, Leiden, Brill, 2013.

Resnick, Irven e Kitchell Jr, Kenneth (eds.), Albert the Great: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, (1900–2000), Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.

Wallace, William A. (1970). (PDF). In Gillispie, Charles (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Scribner & American Council of Learned Societies. pp. 99–103. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.

"Albertus Magnus, Saint"

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Albertus Magnus

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Albertus Magnus

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Albert the Great

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Albertus Magnus

Führer, Markus. . In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Albert the Great"

Kennedy, D.J. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia.

"St. Albertus Magnus" 

Alberti Magni Works in Latin Online

Albertus Magnus on Astrology & Magic

"Albertus Magnus & Prognostication by the Stars"

London, 1604, full online version.

Albertus Magnus: "Secrets of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones and Certain Beasts"

Albertus Magnus – De Adhaerendo Deo – On Cleaving to God

Archived May 6, 2021, at the Wayback Machine – High resolution images of works by Albertus Magnus in .jpg and .tiff format.

Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries

Albertus Magnus works

Alberti Magni De laudibus beate Mariae Virginis