Today marks 730 years of the death of Albert von Lauingen , also known as Albertus Coloniensis or San Alberto Magno, patron saint within the Catholic Church Science students Natural and Accurate Chemical. All university departments that cover these disciplines celebrate this day with a feast, but we are few of us really know who this man was.
Born in Bavaria in the transition between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, educated in the newly founded University of Padua following the writings of Aristotle. After that, he entered the Dominican order and went to Bologna to study theology. For two decades
toured several German schools to teach there until in 1245 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Paris and began teaching at the one where he remained until 1248. One of his students at that time was the celebrated Thomas Aquinas that our graduates as well known, with whom he struck up a friendship.
Although in 1260 he became bishop, three years later stepped down for to lead a humble life in keeping with his character. A symbol of negation of power! died in 1280, after many years of teaching and have been reputed as "Magnus" 's own Roger Bacon, for his many writings about encyclopedic topics as varied as astronomy, botany, geography, mineralogy , Chemistry, Zoology and Physiology. This wide range of interests earned him the nickname "Doctor Universalis" imposed on him by his contemporaries.
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