About Raoul Carton
Lived 1879 – 1934 (aged 54–55). Raoul Carton was a French university teacher, catholic priest and philosopher.
Abbé Raoul Maurice Jean Carton (1879 – 7 July 1934) was a French philosopher.
Life Raoul Maurice Jean Carton was born in Blois, France, in 1879. A Catholic priest, he became professor of philosophy at Stanislas College and the Catholic Institute in Paris. He particularly focused on the work of Roger Bacon, who had been considered a lone scientific genius by 19th century scholarship but whom Carton and others labored to return to his medieval context. He died in Paris on 7 July 1934.
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French priest
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Raoul Carton was born in 1879 in Blois.
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Raoul Carton died on 7 July 1934 in Paris.
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Raoul Carton was a university teacher, catholic priest and philosopher.
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