Adriaan Pattin

Adriaan Pattin (1914–2005) was a Belgian historian of medieval philosophy. His 1966 edition of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de Causis, although intended to be "provisional", was for decades the best version available to scholars.

Life[]

Pattin was born in Hasselt, Belgium, on 17 June 1914 and joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate at the age of 19.^[1] He made his vows in 1935 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1941.^[2] In 1947 he graduated Licentiate from the Higher Institute of Philosophy in the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1952 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on being and essence in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. He also graduated Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa, where he later returned as a visiting professor.^[1] From 1962 until his retirement he was a researcher attached to the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in Leuven.^[1] He died in Veurne on 15 August 2005.

Works[]

• De verhouding tussen zijn en wezenheid en de transcendentale relatie in de 2e helft der XIIIe eeuw (Brussels, Paleis der Akademiën, 1955)
• Le Liber de Causis. Edition établie a l'aide de 90 manuscrits avec introduction et notes, in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 28 (1966).
• Repertorium commentariorum Medii Aevi in Aristotelem latinorum quae in bibliothecis belgicis asservantur (Leuven University Press, 1978)
• Enkele beschouwingen betreffende de geschiedenis van de theologie en filosofie in de Belgische kloosters vóór 1796 (Brussels, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 2000)

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