Akira Yamada (山田 晶) was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.

Biography

Born in Suwa city, Nagano prefecture. Yamada graduated from the Nagano prefecture Suwa junior High-school, and from the 8th High-school. Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in September, 1944. Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987. He wrote many studies books on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas et al., and edited and translated their books. Yamada died of malignant lymphoma at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on 29 February 2008.

Works

The following books are all in Japanese.

Translation and Others

Poetry anthology and Others