Henri-Irenee Marrou

Henri-Irenee Marrou , born with Marseilles in 1904, died in Borough-the-Queen in 1977, antiquisant Historian French, specialist in the primitive Christianity.

Biography

It is born in 1904 from an average family Catholique from the south from the France. It makes brilliant studies, between with the National university of the street of Ulm and obtains the aggregation history in 1929, classified second behind Alphonse Dupront. It enters then to the French École of Rome, where it works on holy Augustin.

Admiror of Teilhard of Chardin and Charles Péguy, it meets Emmanuel Mounier, with which it will collaborate in the review Esprit . He is also the founder of the Études augustiniennes . He travels then in Italy (Naples) and in Egypt (Cairo) before teaching with Nancy, then Montpellier. He obtains in 1937 his thesis on Saint Augustin and the end of the ancient culture . Music lover, he will become member of the Académie Charles-Cross-country race and signs, under the pseudonym of “Henri Davenson”, of the articles and the books of Musicologie.

During the Second world war, it engages in the Résistance. In 1945, it is named professor with the Sorbonne, and writes its most important works. It is one of the first collaborators of the collection “Christian Sources”, publishing texts of the Pères of the Church. During the Guerre of Algeria, he denounces the use of the Torture, which is worth a searching to him. He approves the Vatican II highly, combatant at the same time the integrist ones and the progressists influenced by the Marxisme. He shows himself being wary with regard to May 1968.

He was a friend of Marcel Simon.

Work

Bases of a Christian culture , Paris, Bloud & Gay, 1934;
Holy Augustin and end of the ancient culture , Paris, De Boccard, 1938 (principal thesis);
MOYEIKOE ANHP. Study on the scenes of the intellectual life being reproduced on the Roman monuments , Grenoble, Didier & Richard, 1938 (secondary thesis);
Treated music according to the spirit of saint Augustin , Paris, the Threshold, 1942;
the book of the songs or introduction to the knowledge of the song , Paris, the Threshold, 1944;
History of education in Antiquity , Paris, the Threshold, 1948;
the ambivalence of the time of the history in saint Augustin , Paris, Vrin, 1950;
Of historical knowledge , Paris, the Threshold, 1954;
Holy Augustin and the augustinism , Paris, the Threshold, 1955;
the troubadours , Paris, the Threshold, 1961;
New history of the Church. Volume I, 2nd part: Persecution of Dioclétien with died of Gregoire Large the , Paris, the Threshold, 1963;

* the Church of late Antiquity 303-604 , Paris, the Threshold, collection “Points History”, 1985 (separate republication of the preceding title);

Theology of the history , Paris, the Threshold, 1968; republication, Paris, Editions of the Stag, 2006;
Patristic and humanism , Paris, the Threshold, 1976;
Roman Decline or late antiquity? , Paris, the Threshold, collection “Points History”, 1977 (posthumous);
Christiana tempora. Mixtures of history, archeology, epigraphy and patristics , Rome, French School of Rome, 1978;
Crisis of our time and Christian reflection (1930-1975) , Paris, Beauchesne, 1978 (posthumous);
posthumous Notebooks , Paris, Editions of the Stag, 2006.

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