Europe - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1980 - 50 Pfennig

At its Stockholm meeting (1977), the Commission Postal Mail of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) established the common theme of Famous Celebrities for the 1980 European Brands. The Deutsche Bundespost chose Albertus Magnus and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for their edition. The church teacher Albertus Magnus is considered the most versatile scholar of the 13th century. He was above all the pioneer of Aristotelianism and mediator of Arabic and Jewish science to the Christian Middle Ages. With his natural-philosophical and scientific writings, Albertus Magnus also made trend-setting contributions to the development of the sciences. Born in Lauingen on the Danube in 1193, the Dominican Albertus Magnus taught at various German religious schools. After working at the University of Paris, he headed the newly created General Studies in Cologne; there Thomas Aquinas was his pupil. Under Gregory XV. Albertus Magnus was declared Seliger. In 1931 he was made a saint and church teacher. He died in Cologne in 1280; his bones rest there in the Andreas church.