Maurice de Gandillac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice de Gandillac

French academic

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1906

Place of Birth: Koléa, Tipasa Province, Algeria

Date of Death: 20-Apr-2006

Profession: university teacher, philosopher, philosophy historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Maurice de Gandillac (14 February 1906 – 20 April 2006) was a French philosopher.
He was born in Koléa, French Algeria and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He wrote his thesis under Étienne Gilson on the Renaissance philosopher Nicholas of Cusa.
In 1946 he was appointed professor in the history of medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne. He supervised the doctoral dissertations of numerous students, including Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.