ampltpampgtSt. Albert the Great though he was a medieval man is strikingly modern. No branch of knowledge escaped his eye. His writings cover every field of knowledge.ampltpampgtampltpampgtAlbert one of the Medieval periods greatest saints is often in the shadow of his greatest student St. Thomas Aquinas. Yet just as we cannot speak of an Augustine without an Ambrose we cannot see a St. Thomas without St. Albert.ampltpampgtampltpampgtIn Schwertners biography you can learn more about the why St. Albert the Universal Doctor is called the great. He pioneered science and the scientific method in an age suspicious of them. He was a brilliant philosopher and theologian being one of the greatest scholastics of the medieval universities. A consummate teacher he did much to aid the reform of the Dominican Order in Germany and as Bishop of Regensburg was a model shepherd.ampltpampgt