Akira Yamada
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Biography
Born in Suwa city, Nagano prefecture.[3] Yamada graduated from the Nagano prefecture Suwa junior High-school, and from the 8th High-school. Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in September, 1944.[1]
- 1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University,[1] Department of Literature
- 1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University[1]
- 1957-, Studied at Collegium Angelicum, Vatican City, Italy[3]
- 1965, Assistant professor of the Kyoto University, Department of Literature[1]
- 1968, Professor of the Kyoto University (September, 1968)[1]
- 1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University[1]
- 1980-1986, Chairman of the Society of Medieval Philosophy[1]
- 1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University[1][2]
- 1985–1990, Professor of the Nanzan University, Department of Literature[1]
- 1990–1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University
- 1998, Member of the Japan Academy[1][2]
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.[2]
Yamada died of malignant lymphoma at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on 29 February 2008.[1]
Works
The following books are all in Japanese.
- The Fundamental Problems of Augustinus - 1st Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1977), Sōbunsha, Template:ISBN (2003)
- The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1978), Sōbunsha, Template:ISBN (1978)
- The One Who is the One Existing - 3rd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1979), Sōbunsha,
- The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' RES - 4th Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1986), Sōbunsha, Template:ISBN (1986)
- Lectures on Augustinus, (1986), Shinchi shobou, Template:ISBN
- The Christology of Thomas Aquinas, (1999), Soubunsha, Template:ISBN
- Lectures on Medieval Philosophy, 5 Volumes, (2021-2022), Chisenshokan, (edited by Shinsuke Kawazoe et al.)
- Lectures on Ethics, 5 Volumes, (2024- ), Chisenshokan, (edited by Yoshinobu Kohama)
- Analogia and God Tetsugaku-shobō, 1989, (as Representative editor)
Translation and Others
- Thomas Aquinas Summa Thelogiae (39 volumes), Sōbunsha, 1965 -2003
- Yamada translated and commented 6 books in this collection (in Part 1, Vol.3 to Part 3, Vol.28).
- The World Fine Books, 14th vol. - Augustinus - Confession, ed. et translation, (1968), Chuo-Koronsha, Template:ISBN
- The World Fine Books, 2nd season, 5th vol. - Thomas Aquinas - Summa Thelogica, ed. et translation, (1975), Chuou-Kouronsha, Template:ISBN
- Histoire de la philosophie. Idées. Doctrines (8 volumes), 1972-1973, by François Châtelet
- Yamada translated Tome 2 - Philosophie Médiévale, Hakusuisha, 1976, Template:ISBN
- Piety of Christian, The Papers Dedicated to Master (Sir) Tōru Ingu in Commemoration of the 77th Birthday, co-editor, Yorudansha, 1989, Template:ISBN
Poetry anthology and Others
- Yamada Akira: Poem Anthology, (?, circa 1980), Oka-shobō, (private edition)
- Poem Anthology - The Songs of Morning and Evening, (1986), Shinchi shobō
- The Mother in the Memory - Remembrance of Nihi Yamada, (1989), Shinchi shobō, (Editor and writer)
References
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- (ja) Public Relations of Kyoto University, Vol.633 Page 22, Script error: No such module "Lang". (News of death)
- (ja) Memorial Writing by Hidemi Mizuta (Japanese Society of Medieval Philosophy)
- (ja) Information of deceased member Japan Academy
- (ja) Koto-bank Koto-bank: Yamada Akira
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