Gregory of Rimini
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Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300, Rimini - November 1358, Vienna), also called de Arimino or Ariminensis, was an Augustinian hermit born in Rimini around 1300 who studied theology at the University of Paris from 1323 to 1329. There, he became well-acquainted with the works of William of Ockham and the other Oxford scholars. He then went to teach at various schools in Italy, at Bologna, Padua, and Perugia. He was one of the last great Scholastics of the Middle Ages.
Gregory returned to Paris in 1342 to prepare lectures on the Peter Lombard's Sentences. Gregory became Master of Theology there in 1345.
He was a true Augustinian, contra the major Parisian theologian of the times, Peter Auriol, whose theology was semipelagian. He held to Augustine's double predestination and famously condemned unbaptised infants to Hell, for which he gained the nickname Infantium Tortor, Torturer, or Tormentor, of Infants. His students admired him greatly, however, and they called him Doctor acutus or Doctor authenticus.
He died in 1358 shortly after being named General of the Augustinian Hermits.
