Akira Yamada

Portrait of Akira Yamada, published by the Japan Academy

Akira Yamada (山田 晶, Yamada Akira, 7 March 1922 – 29 February 2008[1][2]) was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy.[2][3] Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.[2][3]

Biography

Born in Suwa city, Nagano prefecture.[1] 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.[2]

  • 1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University,[2] Department of Literature
  • 1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University[2]
  • 1957-, Studied at Collegium Angelicum, Vatican City, Italy[1]
  • 1965, Assistant professor of the Kyoto University, Department of Literature[2]
  • 1968, Professor of the Kyoto University (September, 1968)[2]
  • 1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University[2]
  • 1980-1986, Chairman of the Society of Medieval Philosophy[2]
  • 1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University[2][3]
  • 1985–1990, Professor of the Nanzan University, Department of Literature[2]
  • 1990–1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University
  • 1998, Member of the Japan Academy[2][3]

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.[3]

Yamada died of malignant lymphoma at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on 29 February 2008.[2]

Works

The following books are all in Japanese.

  • The Fundamental Problems of Augustinus - 1st Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1977), Sōbunsha, ISBN 978-4423170052 (2003)
  • The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1978), Sōbunsha, ISBN 978-4423300381 (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, ISBN 978-4423300404 (1986)
  • Lectures on Augustinus, (1986), Shinchi shobou, ISBN 4-88018-118-8
  • The Christology of Thomas Aquinas, (1999), Soubunsha, ISBN 4-423-30106-7
  • 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).
Yamada translated Tome 2 - Philosophie Médiévale, Hakusuisha, 1976, ISBN 4560023689
  • Piety of Christian, The Papers Dedicated to Master (Sir) Tōru Ingu in Commemoration of the 77th Birthday, co-editor, Yorudansha, 1989, ISBN 4842800143

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

  1. ^ a b c Koto-bank
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Public Relations Vol.633: p.22
  3. ^ a b c d e (ja) Japan Academy info


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