GREDT, JOSEPH AUGUST. - Benedictine philosopher, b. in Luxembourg on 30 July 1863, d. in Rome on 29 January 1940. Ordained priest, he was a student in Rome of Satolli and Lepidi (1886-88) and later entered the Benedictine abbey of Seckau (Styria, Austria). In 1896 he was called to the College of St. Anselm in Rome as a professor of philosophy, holding this position until 1939, teaching and defending pure Thomism. In the revival of Thomistic studies brought about by Leo XIII, while many limited themselves to Aristotle, St. Thomas, and Cajetan, G. was the first to exploit the work of later commentators, especially John of St. Thomas.
Principal works: *Elementa philosophiae aristotelico-thomisticae* (2 vols., 1st ed., Rome 1899-1901; 7th ed., Florence 1937); *De cognitione sensuum externorum* (1st ed., Rome 1913; 2nd ed., ibid. 1924); *Unsere Aussenwelt* (Innsbruck 1921); *Die aristotelisch-thomistische Philosophie* (2 vols., Florence 1935).
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