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11 Facts About Ralph McInerny

1.

Ralph Matthew McInerny was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame.

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Ralph McInerny sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin and Monica Quill.

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Ralph McInerny wrote his PhD dissertation entitled The Existential Dialectic of Soren Kierkegaard under Professor Charles De Koninck at Laval University in Quebec, Canada.

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Ralph McInerny was Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Jacques Maritain Center, and Michael P Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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Ralph McInerny taught there from 1955 until his retirement in 2009.

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Ralph McInerny was a Fulbright Scholar, receiving educational funds from the Fulbright Commission Belgium.

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Ralph McInerny served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1993.

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8.

Ralph McInerny's brother Dennis, a philosophy professor, believes that his brother's greatest legacy is not to be found in his novels, but in his adherence to scholastic and Thomistic beliefs.

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Ralph McInerny attended Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary for high school.

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Ralph McInerny married the former Constance Kunert January 3,1953, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Ralph McInerny preceded him in death on May 18,2002.