Albertus Magnus
"Albert the Great," Count von Bollstädt, a German scholastic philosopher; born at Lauingen , Suabia, 1193. He became Bishop of Ratisbon in 1260. One of the greatest scholars of his age, he taught philosophy and theology at Cologne and Paris. So great was his knowledge that he was accounted a magician by his contemporaries. His works, treating chiefly of physical science, fill 21 volumes. They appeared in 1651. He died at Cologne , Nov. 15, 1280.