U n i V e r s a L i s

Y éste Alberto al que llaman Big AL, tan vaciado a su hermano uniandino y que se encuentra frente al University of Houston Law Center, tambien salió Bobo?

Esto dice la ficha del centro de leyes de la Universidad de Houston:

"Albertus Magnus" or Albert the Great is the name of the imposing bronze statue situated in the courtyard of the University of Houston Law Center.

Albert the Great was a medieval theologian and "Man of Universal Knowledge." Born in Lauingen, Bavaria sometime between 1193 and 1206, he was a bishop, doctor and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, having as one of his students Saint Thomas Aquinas. He taught in Paris and at the Studium Generale in Cologne, a university run by the Order of the Dominicans in the 13th century and one of the first universities in Europe. A dominant figure, he was an influential teacher, an experienced traveler, a keen observer of life and nature and the one learned man of the Golden Age to be called "the Great." He was later declared a saint by the catholic church.

Albertus Magnus is the best-known work of German sculptor Gerhard Marcks (1889 - 1981)and considered to be his finest by many scholars and artists. The UH acquisition was made from a special cast in Dusseldorf by permission of Marcks and his family. An identical casting was placed in 1955 in front of the Albertus-Magnus-University of Cologne, Germany. The third casting is at the University of Bogotá.

With his open law book and profound expression, Big Al, as he is informally called, is the bigger than life symbol of the legal profession to Law Center students and faculty.