About Pierre Mandonnet
Lived 1858 – 1936 (aged 77). Pierre Mandonnet was a Belgian catholic priest, church historian, friar and medievalist.
Pierre Mandonnet (26 February 1858 – 4 January 1936) was a French-born, Belgian Dominican historian, important in the neo-Thomist trend of historiography and the recovery of medieval philosophy. He made his reputation with a study of Siger of Brabant.
Biography Pierre Mandonnet was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dômeon 26 February 1858.
In 1887 he was ordained as a priest, and from 1891 to 1919, was a professor of church history at the University of Fribourg. In 1902/03 he served as university rector.
He died in Le Saulchoir on 4 January 1936. Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre (1921); translated into English in 1944 as St. Dominic and his work (2 parts).
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Belgian historian (1858–1936)
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Pierre Mandonnet was born on 26 February 1858 in Beaumont.
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Pierre Mandonnet died on 4 January 1936 in Kain.
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Pierre Mandonnet was a catholic priest, church historian, friar and medievalist.
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