Adolphe Perraud
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Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud (7 February 1828 – 10 February 1906) was a French
Biography
Perraud was born in
On his ordination in 1855, after a sojourn at Rome, he was appointed professor of history and prefect of religion at the "petit seminaire" of
In 1860 he visited Ireland, after which he wrote Contemporary Ireland (1862).[2] In 1865 he defended a theological thesis at the Sorbonne, where in 1866 he became professor of ecclesiastical history and dealt brilliantly with the history of Protestantism. He was appointed (1870) by Émile Ollivier, a member of the Committee of Higher Education.
In 1870 he was a chaplain in
Perraud was actively concerned in the improvement of clerical studies. In this connection his sermon (1879) on "the Church and light" caused a great sensation; after the
Having been
Perraud's works consist of the Études sur l'Irlande contemporaine (Paris, 1862); L'Oratoire de France au XVIIe siècle (1865); Paroles de l'heure présente (Words for the present time) (1872); Le Cardinal de Richelieu (1872); and a number of oratorical works.
See also
References
- Baudrillart, "Le Cardinal Perraud" in Le Correspondant (25 Feb., 1906)
- Mathieu, Discours de réception à l'Académie française (5 Feb., 1907)
- Chauvin, Amédée (1852–1923) L'Oratoire
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Adolphe Perraud". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Google Books website Études sur l'Irlande contemporaine, Volume 1, by Cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud (online copy)
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