Medieval German Dominican friar and polymath who systematically introduced Aristotle's natural philosophy into the Christian intellectual tradition — and was the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
Aristotle commentaries: made the entire Aristotelian corpus available and intelligible to the Latin West — a massive encyclopedic project. Natural philosophy: detailed empirical studies of plants, animals, and minerals — among the most careful medieval observers of nature. Teacher of Aquinas: his student Thomas Aquinas carried his synthesis of Aristotle and Christianity to its definitive form.
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