Peter Crockaert
Peter Crockaert {{post-nominals|post-noms=OP}} (c. 1465–1514), known as Peter of Brussels, was a Flemish scholastic philosopher....a scholastic of some genius, [http://www2.nd.edu/Departments//Maritain/etext/homp456.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614012630/http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/homp456.htm |date=2010-06-14 }}. Initially he was a pupil of John Mair and a follower of William of Ockham. Later he joined the Dominican Order, and became a supporter of orthodox Thomism.[http://www2.nd.edu/Departments//Maritain/etext/homp452.htm], from the 1909 history by Maurice De Wulf....at first an ardent disciple of the Scot, John Mair, and like him a nominalist, he became a Dominican in 1503 and displayed the greatest zeal for St. Thomas Aquinas.[http://www.constitution.org/victoria/victoria_2.htm] He taught at the University of Paris,In the first decade of the century Peter Crockaert (died 1514), a Belgian working in Paris, had substituted the Summa Theologiae for what had previously been the standard text for theological instruction, viz. the 'Sentences' of Peter Lombard. John Haldane, [http://www.assumption.edu/users/gcolvert/jjhbf1998.htm 1998 Aquinas Lecture]. and is known for a number of commentaries, on Aristotle and Peter of Spain as well as on Aquinas.
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