COCONNIER, THOMAS. – Dominican philosopher and theologian, born at Grazay near Mayenne in France on 26 August 1846, died at Toulouse on 8 March 1908. He was a professor at the major seminary of Laval; in Rome, a disciple of the future Cardinal Zigliara. Having entered the Order of S. Domenico, in 1878 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the recently founded Catholic Institute of Toulouse, and in 1890 professor of theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1893 he founded and directed until his death the Revue Thomiste. He combined solid and profound philosophical and theological thought with a perfect literary style.
Principal works: L'âme humaine (Paris 1890); L'hypnotisme franç. (there 1893); La charité d'après s. Thomas d'A., in Revue Thomiste, 12 (1904), pp. 641–60; 14 (1906), pp. 6–30; 15 (1907), pp. 1–17.