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-Dôme on 4 January 1936. 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.

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