Philotheus Boehner: Difference between revisions

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|02|17|df=y}}

|birth_place = [[Lichtenau, Westphalia]], Germany

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|05|22|1901|02|17|df=y}}

'''Philotheus Boehner''' ({{IPA-|de|ˈbøːnɐ|lang}}; born '''Heinrich Boehner'''; 17 February 17, 1901 &ndash; 22 May 22, 1955) was a member of the [[Franciscan]] order known for medieval scholarship.<ref name = "TMA">{{citeCite web |title=Philotheus Boehner, OFM (1901-1955) |url=http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/archives/mertonweb/Biographies/Boehner1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710015901/http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/archives/mertonweb/Biographies/Boehner1.htm |archive-date=10 July 2009 |website=The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University |publisher=[[St. Bonaventure University]] |accessdate=5 July 2009}}</ref>

Boehner was born Heinrich Boehner in [[Lichtenau, Westphalia]]. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1920, and was given the name ''{{lang|la|Philotheus}}'',<ref name="Damico">{{citeCite book |last=Damico |first=Helen |title=Medieval Scholarship : Philosophy and the arts}}</ref> the Latin form of the Greek ''{{lang|el-Latn|Philotheos}}'', ("friend of God"). In 1927 he was ordained as a priest, although he was so ill with [[tuberculosis]] he was not expected to live. While resting, he began his work as a medieval scholar by translating [[Étienne Gilson]]'s work on [[Saint Bonaventura]]. He became a close friend of Gilson in the 1930s.

In the summer of 1940 Boehner moved to [[St. Bonaventure University|Saint Bonaventure College]] (now a university) where he lectured on Franciscan philosophy, and it was here that he began to build the [[Franciscan Institute]] into a center of international Franciscan scholarship.

Probably his most enduring work is the [[critical edition]] of [[William of Ockham]]'s ''Opera omnia theologica et philosophica'', which he produced with Professor [[Ernest Moody]].<ref name="OP">{{citeCite web |title=Philotheus Boehner |url=https://openlibrary.org/a/OL842460A/Philotheus-Boehner|title=Philotheus Boehner|publisher=Open Library |accessdate=5 July 2009-07-05}}</ref>

[[Category:GermanPeople scholarsfrom Paderborn (district)]]