Albertus Magnus

German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)

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Lived 1200–1280, aged 80Germany
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    1200–1280
    Aged 80
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Updated 2026-06-08

A thirteenth-century German friar who earned the title "Doctor universalis" — the universal teacher — by threading Aristotelian reason through Christian theology at a time when the two were still circling each other warily.

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Born around 1200, Albertus Magnus joined the Dominican order and spent his life reconciling the natural sciences with medieval faith. His contemporaries called him "Doctor expertus" for his command of subjects from astronomy to zoology; late in life they added "Magnus" to the name. He taught across Europe, eventually became a bishop, and trained a generation of thinkers in the new Aristotelian methods flooding back from the Islamic world. He died on 15 November 1280. The Church canonized him in 1931 and named him a Doctor of the Church, recognizing him as the greatest German philosopher and th…

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