Thomas Aquinas - Biography

Biography

St. Thomas Aquinas

Detail from Valle Romita Polyptych by Gentile da Fabriano
Born Thomas Aquinas
About 1225
Roccasecca, Kingdom of Sicily
Died 7 March 1274
Fossanova, Papal States
Ethnicity Italian
Education Order of Saint Benedict
University of Naples Federico II
Occupation Priest, Philosopher, Theologian
Influenced by Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Dionysius the Areopagite, Albertus Magnus, Maimonides, Anselm, Plato, Cicero, Eriugena
Influenced Giles of Rome, Godfrey of Fontaines, Hooker, Locke, Dante, Leibniz, Martain, Gilson, Anscombe, Donoso Cortés, Eckhart, Chesterton, Joyce, Kenny, Pope Pius XII, Carvalho, Rothbard, Walker Percy; See also Thomism, Roman Catholic theology, Mortimer J. Adler, Cornelio Fabro, Fulton J. Sheen, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Parents Landulf of Aquino

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