Martin Grabmann

Martin Grabmann (5 January 1875 – 9 January 1949) was a German Catholic priest, medievalist and historian of theology and philosophy. He was a pioneer of the history of medieval philosophy and has been called "the greatest Catholic scholar of his time."

Early life Grabmann was born in Winterzhofen, Bavaria, Germany, on 5 January 1875 to a deeply religious Bavarian parents, Joseph Grabmann (1848-1915), a farmer, and Walburga Bauer (1850-1886). He had two brothers. He then studied at the Angelicum, the St. Thomas College of the Dominicans in Rome for two years.

Grabmann was foundational in fostering the variety of contemporary interpretations of both scholasticism and Aquinas.

Death He died in Eichstätt on the afternoon of 9 January 1949, after suffering from chest pains; he was buried at the south wall of the Eichstätt East Cemetery.

By the end of his life, his writings totalled over 400 books and essays.

Although Grabmann's works in German are numerous, only Thomas Aquinas (1928) is available in English.