Akira Yamada
Philosopher, Deceased Person
1922 – 2008
Who was Akira Yamada?
Akira Yamada was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.
Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in 1944.
1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University, Department of Literature
1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University
1965, Assistant professor of the Kyoto University, Department of Literature
1968, Professor of the Kyoto University
1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University
1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University
1985–1990, Professor of the Nanzan University, Department of Literature
1990–1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University
Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987. He wrote many studies books on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas et al., and edited and translated their books.
Yamada died at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture, on 29 February, 2008.
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- Born
- Mar 7, 1922
- Profession
- Education
- Kyoto University
- Died
- Feb 29, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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