Place

Cologne

Holy Roman Empire · Modern Germany

A great cathedral city on the Rhine, where Albertus Magnus founded a Dominican school of studies and taught the young Thomas Aquinas.

Thinkers Connected to Cologne

c. 1200 CE – 1280 CE

The teacher of Aquinas, who insisted that studying nature carefully was a way of honoring its creator.

c. 1266 CE – 1308 CE

The Subtle Doctor, who argued that being means the same of God and creatures, and that each thing has its own thisness.

c. 1260 CE – c. 1328 CE

The Dominican mystic who preached that the ground of the soul and the ground of God are one, and that the deepest prayer is to want nothing.