Background
James H. Robb was born on April 25, 1918 in Bena, Minnesota.
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Book by Robb, James H.
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James H. Robb was born on April 25, 1918 in Bena, Minnesota.
He attended Saint Cloud State Teachers College, completing his Bachelor of Science degree in English and Psychology in 1940.
After two years of teaching high school English, Robb entered the Army Signal Corps during the Second World War. He served as an officer (Captain) in the China, India, and Burma theaters until his discharge in 1946. Robb next pursued graduate studies at the University of Toronto, receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies Summa Cud Laude from the Pontifical Institute in 1952 and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1953.
After a Fulbright year in Paris, where he studied medieval philosophy and French cuisine, he began his teaching career at Loyola Marymount University.
Robb returned to Marquette University in 1956, becoming one of the schools most popular professors over a thirty-year span until his retirement in 1991. Along with a great knowledge of Charles Peguy, Robb was an expert on Medieval Philosophy in general and Thomas Aquinas in particular and was the author/editor of three books: Saint Thomas Questions on the Soul (1984). Critical edition of South. Thomae Aquinatis Quaestiones De Anima (1968) and numerous articles
He also served for over twenty-five years as Editor-in-Chief of the Marquette series, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation. Robb died in Milwaukee on September 16, 1993.
Doctor Robb Papers, 1918–1993, Marquette University.
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