was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European

Medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

. Member of the

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since 1998. Yamada graduated from the

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, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in 1944. * 1951, Instructor of the

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, Department of Literature * 1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University * 1965, Assistant professor of the

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, Department of Literature * 1968, Professor of the Kyoto University * 1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University * 1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University * 1985–1990, Professor of the

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, Department of Literature * 1990–1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by ''Lectures on Augustinus'' in 1987. He wrote many studies books on

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et al., and edited and translated their books. Yamada died at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture, on 29 February 2008.

Works

The following books are all in Japanese. * ''The Fundamental Problems of Augustinus - 1st Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy'', (1977), Soubunsha, * ''The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy'', (1978), Soubunsha, * ''The One Who is the One Existing - 3rd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy'', (1979), Soubunsha, * ''The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' RES - 4th Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy'', (1986), Soubunsha, * ''Poem Anthology - The Songs of Morning and Evening'', (1986), Shinchi shobou * ''Lectures on Augustinus'', (1986), Shinchi shobou, * ''The Christology of Thomas Aquinas'', (1999), Soubunsha,

Translation and Others

* Thomas Aquinas ''Summa Thelogiae'', Soubunsha, (Yamada translated many volumes in this translation programme.) * ''The World Fine Books, 14th vol. - Augustinus'', ed. et translation, (1968), Chuou-Kouronsha, * ''The World Fine Books, 2nd season, 5th vol. - Thomas Aquinas'', ed. et translation, (1975), Chuou-Kouronsha, 1922 births 2008 deaths Kyoto University alumni 20th-century Japanese philosophers Kyoto University faculty Nanzan University {{Japan-writer-stub