Peter Lombard

For the Irish archbishop, see Peter Lombard (archbishop of Armagh). For the Guamanian cyclist, see Peter Lombard II.
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard writing "Omnes sitientes venite ad me (all you that thirst, come to me)"
Bornc. 1096
Novara, Lombardy
Died21/22 August 1160
Paris, France
OccupationBishop of Paris
TitleMaster of the Sentences
Academic background
Alma materSchool of Reims
University of Bologna
Influences
Academic work
School or traditionScholasticism
Notable works
Influenced

Peter Lombard (also Peter the Lombard, Pierre Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; c. 1096 – 21/22 August 1160) was an Italian scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of the Sentences, which became the standard medieval textbook of theology.

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