Anders Piltz

Anders Piltz OP (born 7 March 1943) is a Swedish Latinist, medievalist, Dominican friar, and Roman Catholic priest Born in Ödeborg in Dalsland, Piltz studied at the University of Uppsala and at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.

Piltz's university homepage describes his early career as having focused initially on medieval Latin text criticism, but later shifting towards the history of ideas.

Piltz's first published work was a Prolegomena[1] to a text-critical edition of the work Homo conditus by Magister Mathias Ouidi (c 1300 – c. 1350), the confessor of Saint Bridget of Sweden whom Piltz considers the foremost theologian of the mediaeval Swedish Catholic church.

His book Medeltidens lärda värld (Stockholm: Carmina, 1978) on the curriculum and tradition of learning in medieval universities and schools, was translated and published in German and English editions.

[5] Anders Piltz was (along with the psychologist of religion (James W. Jones) one of the two persons awarded honorary doctorates from the Uppsala University Faculty of Theology in the fall semester 2002.