Q:Facts: - death place: leuven , belgium - influences: thomas aquinas , immanuel kant - death date: 11 december 1944 - region: western philosophy - school tradition: christian philosophy , psychology - influenced: karl rahner , bernard lonergan , richard de smet - birth date: 1 july 1878 - main interests: metaphysics , philosophical theology - name: joseph marechal - image: marechal philosopher.jpg - era: 20th-century philosophy - birth place: charleroi , belgium Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of joseph marechal .
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joseph marechal -lrb- 1 july 1878 -- 11 december 1944 -rrb- was a belgian jesuit priest , philosopher and psychologist at the higher institute of philosophy of the university of leuven who founded a school of thought called transcendental thomism , which attempted to merge the theological and philosophical thought of st. thomas aquinas with that of immanuel kant .