Hippolyte Delehaye
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Hippolyte Delehaye | |
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Born | Antwerp, Belgium | 19 August 1859
Died | 1 April 1941 Etterbeek, Belgium | (aged 81)
Education | University of Louvain |
Occupation | Scholar |
Hippolyte Delehaye,
Biography
Born in 1859 in
In 1892 Fr Delehaye was appointed by his Jesuit superiors to be a fellow of the Society of
In the earlier part of the twentieth century fears arose in the Catholic Church about the theological consequences of some methods used in critical historical studies, including biblical scholarship. Later the Church accepted the principle of critical methodology, and in 1930
As a consequence, in those years critical method encountered difficulties, within the
These were issues of broader scope that did not prevent Fr Delehaye from continuing as a priest in good standing to pursue his researches with the
Books
Delehaye's major publications, works of method and synthesis that are of general use to historians, are:
- Les Légendes hagiographiques, Brüssels 1905, 1906 (translated by Virginia Mary Crawford, 1907,[5] reprinted 1998), 1927. A 1955 French edition was translated by Donald Attwater as The Legends of the Saints (Fordham University Press, 1962).
- Les Origines du culte des martyrs, 1912
- Les Passions des martyrs et les genres littéraires, 1921
- Sanctus. Essai sur le culte des saints dans l'antiquité, 1927
Other important works, with more restricted focus, are:
- Les versions grecques des Actes des martyrs persans sous Sapor II, 1905
- Les Légendes grecques des saints militaires, 1909
- A travers trois siècles: L'Oeuvre des Bollandistes 1615 à 1915, 1920 (translated in 1922)
- Les saints Stylites, 1923
- Martyrologium Romanum... (Propylaeum ad Acta SS. Decembris), 194 A commentary on the Roman martyrology, of which Delehaye was the chief editor.
- Cinq leçons sur la méthode hagiographique, 1934.
Posthumous collections of fugitive pieces were published in 1966 as Mélanges d'hagiographie grecque et latine and in 1991 as L'ancienne hagiographie byzantine: les sources, les premiers modèles, la formation des genres, the previously unpublished texts of lectures delivered in 1935.
Notes
- ^ a b c "Delehaye, Reverend Hippolyte", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 41 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Vermeersch, Arthur (1911). "Modernism". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ Pope Pius X (8 September 1907). "Pascendi Dominici Gregis". The Holy See (in Latin). Retrieved 8 June 2016.Pascendi dominici gregis
- ^ Detailed in Bernard Joassart's study concentrating on the Légendes, Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme (Subsidia Hagiographica, 81), 2 vols. (Brussels : Société Bollandiste) 2000; a chapter is devoted to Delehaye in Lawrence Barmann and J.T.Talar, eds., Sanctity and Secularity During the Modernist Period
- ^ "Review of The Legends of the Saints: an Introduction to Hagiography from the French of Père H. Delehaye, S.J." The Athenaeum (4169): 326–327. 21 September 1907.
References
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Delehaye, Hippolyte". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 1249. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.
- Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography (1907)
- B. Joassart, Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme, (Subsidia Hagiographica, 81), 2 vols. Brussels, 2000