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Étienne Henry Gilson was born on June 13, 1884 in Paris.
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(Revue culturelle française publiée le 15 mars 1948.)
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Étienne Henry Gilson was born on June 13, 1884 in Paris.
Étienne Henry Gilson was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Notre-Dame-des-Champs and the Sorbonne (1895 - 1907).
He spent several years as a high school teacher and pursued research at the Sorbonne, receiving a doctoral degree in 1913 for a dissertation on the philosophy of René Descartes.
The same year Gilson began teaching at the University of Lille.
Étienne Henry Gilson stressed the importance of rigorous philosophical reasoning corrected and expanded by Christian revelation.
During this period he moved from a thorough training in modern philosophy to the study of medieval philosophy on the advice of his teacher at the Sorbonne, the distinguished philosopher Lucien Lévy-Bruhl.
Gilson served in the French army in World War I.
He was captured at the Battle of Verdun in 1915 and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner.
From 1919 to 1921 Gilson taught at the University of Strasbourg.
In 1932 he was made first holder of the chair of the history of medieval philosophy at the Collège de France.
His William James Lectures at Harvard in 1935 were published as The Unity of Philosophical Experience (1937).
In 1947 he was honored by the highest distinction attainable by the French scholar: membership in the French Academy.
The institute was established in 1929 in connection with St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto and, under Gilson's direction, became perhaps the finest center in the Western world for research on the Middle Ages.
After years of "commuting" between France and Canada, Gilson resigned from his chair at the Collège de France in 1951 and devoted the remainder of his active career to directing the institute in Toronto.
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In 1908 Gilson married Thérèse Ravisé they later had one son and two daughters.
