Edward A. Synan

Edward Aloysius Synan (13 April 1918 – 3 August 1997 ) was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, and professor at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. In addition to authoring and editing several books, Synan published over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism. In 1938 he graduated from Seton Hall College and entered seminary for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark. From there he was sent to the American College of Louvain. When the outbreak of World War II forced him to return to the United States, he resumed his study of theology at the Catholic University of America.

He is buried at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair, New Jersey.

Selected works The Popes and the Jews in the Middle Ages (Macmillan, 1965) (as editor) The Works of Richard of Campsall (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1968–1982)