Albertus Magnus has long been recognized as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages; his contemporaries conferred upon him the title Doctor Universalis .
In his work De animalibus, Albert integrated the vast amount of information on nature that had come down to him.
In 1941, Pope Pius XII named Albertus Magnus patron saint of scientists.
An epitaph at his tomb described him as prince among philosophers, greater than Plato, and hardly inferior to King Solomon in wisdom.
Albertus Magnus has long been recognized as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages; his contemporaries conferred upon him the title Doctor Universalis