Frederick Wilhelmsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrederick Wilhelmsen
American philosopher
Date of Birth: 18-May-1923
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 21-May-1996
Profession: philosopher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Frederick Wilhelmsen
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- Wilhelmsen (1923 – 21 May 1996) was a distinguished Roman Catholic philosopher, noted, both as a professor and as a writer, for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition.
- He also was a political commentator, assessing American politics and society from a traditionalist perspective and a political thinker, addressing what he perceived to be the failings of secular-liberal democracy.
- He principally was a professor at the University of Dallas from 1965 to his death in 1996.
- He also taught at the University of Santa Clara, the Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and lectured and taught classes at many other universities. He was a prolific writer.
- Besides the book publications listed below, he contributed articles to the following: America, The Angelus, The Commonweal, Faith & Reason, The Grail, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, National Review, The Political Science Reviewer, Triumph, The University Bookman, and The Wanderer, among others. He also was a founding editor of Triumph, a Roman Catholic monthly that sought the sacralization of American society.In addition to assessing American politics and society, he was inspired by and extensively reflected upon Spanish politics and society.
- Alvaro d'Ors, a notable Spanish political philosopher, wrote that Wilhelmsen, an American from Detroit, was "the best interpreter of Spanish traditionalism, a body of political thought also known as Carlism, after King Charles V (Don Carlos)".Wilhelmsen enjoyed a lively friendship and correspondence with Marshall McLuhan, who spent time at the University of Dallas in the 1970s.
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