GERARD OF MONTE (de Monte). - Philosopher and writer, b. at Heerenberg c. 1400, d. at Cologne on 31 Oct. 1480. He enrolled at the University of Cologne in 1421, where he first taught philosophy (1424-38) and then theology. He served as dean of the philosophical faculty from 1427 to 1433; twice rector of the University (1436, 1453) and then for 49 years (1431-80) rector of the grammar school known as Borsa, named after him as the “del Monte.”
A disciple of Henry of Gorkum, in the controversies between Albertists and Thomists he was a staunch supporter of Thomist theses and an advocate of the real agreement between St. Thomas and Albert the Great on all disputed points. Hence, against Heymericus de Campo, leader of the opposition and author of *Problema inter S. Thomam et Albertum Magnum*, he wrote a *Tractatus ad favorabilium dirigens concordiam quaedam problemata inter S. Thomam et venerabilem Albertum*; he also composed the *Tractatus concordantiae* (ed. Cologne [1496] and recently by G. Meersseman, Rome 1934), in which he highlights the real agreement existing between theses of St. Thomas that appear contradictory. To Heymericus’s *Invectiva* he replied with the *Apologia* (ed. in G. Meersseman, *Geschichte des Albertismus*, II, Rome 1935, pp. 122-28), narrating the history of the controversy from 1423 and refuting the calumnies of his adversary.