{{Short description|Canadian professor of philosophy}} '''Claude Sumner''', SJ (1919–2012) was a Canadian professor of philosophy who worked at Addis Ababa University from 1953.<ref>Teodros Kiros, "Doing African Philosophy: Claude Sumner's Work on Ethiopian Philosophy", ''New Political Science'' 16.1 (1995), p. 95</ref> He was best known for his work on Zera Yacob. Sumner died on June 24, 2012, in Montreal, Canada, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200221073319/http://jesam.info/wp-content/uploads/jn-en-26.pdf ''SJ Africa News'', vol. 5, no. 3 (July 20, 2012)], p. 9.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jesuites.org/content/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-du-p-claude-sumner-sj |title=Décès du P. Claude Sumner, s.j. &#124; Jésuites |language=French |publisher=Jesuites.org |accessdate=2012-09-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724035630/http://www.jesuites.org/content/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-du-p-claude-sumner-sj |archivedate=2013-07-24 }}</ref>

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