German theologian, the father of Scholasticism. Launingen, 1193 [1206?] - Cologne, 15 November 1280.
Of the two treatises published by Plantin under the name of Albertus Magnus, one at least - the mystic De adherendo Deo - was in fact written by another author, the Benedictine monk Johannes of Kastl (abbey near Ratisbon, Bavaria), about 1410 (first printed, with the attribution to Albertus Magnus in 1473 by Zainer, Ulm). Cf. E.Ph. Goldschmidt, Medieval texts and their first appearance in print, London, 1943, pages 48-49.