Maurice de Gandillac (14 February 1906 – 18 April 2006) was a French philosopher. He was born in Koléa, French Algeria and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
He wrote his thesis under Étienne Gilson on the Renaissance philosopher Nicholas of Cusa.[1] In 1946 he was appointed professor in the history of medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne.[2]He supervised the doctoral dissertations of numerous students, including Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.[1]