NEH awards multiyear research grant to philosophy professor Bernd Goehring

Wagner College Newsroom

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Dr. Bernd Goehring, Clinical Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wagner College, a multi-year grant for his research on Henry of Ghent, a medieval philosopher and theologian. The $220,000 grant is for three years of work on an edition of Henry of Ghent’s Summa, art. 68-72. Henry of Ghent taught at the University of Paris in the late thirteenth century. He has been linked to the Goethals family in Flanders (now Belgium), some of whose descendants later moved to New York together with countless other Dutch and Flemish immigrants who settled on Staten Island and in other parts of the city.

Dr. Goehring is the general coordinator of the critical edition of Henry’s complete works and a research associate at Leuven University in Belgium. He has already discovered new manuscripts in European libraries as part of his groundbreaking work, and he will study these manuscripts with a group of fellow researchers at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and Lyon College. As America celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, this research project will contribute to our understanding of the humanistic and intellectual roots of our nation’s institutions, ideas, and values.

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