Louis Duchesne

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Louis Duchesne
Duchesne in 1920 (Agence Meurisse)
Born	Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne 13 September 1843 Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine
Died	21 April 1922 (1922-04-22) (aged 78) Rome
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions
Notable work	Liber Pontificalis

Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (French:

Life

Descended from a family of Breton sailors, he was born on 13 September 1843 in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine,^[1] Place Roulais, now part of Saint-Malo on the Breton coast, and was orphaned in 1849, after the death of his father Jacques Duchesne. Louis' brother, Jean-Baptiste Duchesne, settled in Oregon City, Oregon in 1849.

Louis Duchesne was ordained to the priesthood in 1867.

In 1877, he obtained the chair of ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Institute, but left the theological faculty in 1883. He then taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where he influenced

In 1887, he published the results of his thesis, followed by the first complete critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis.^[1][2] At a difficult time for critical historians applying modern methods to Church history, drawing together archaeology and topography to supplement literature and setting ecclesiastical events with contexts of social history, Abbé Duchesne was in constant correspondence with like-minded historians among the Bollandists, with their long history of critical editions of hagiographies. He gained fame as a demythologizing critical historian of the popular, pious lives of saints produced by Second Empire publishers.^[5]

In 1888, he became a member of the

As editor of the Bulletin critique du littérature, d'histoire et de théologie, Duchesne kept up with current intellectual developments.^[6]

He also wrote Les Sources du martyrologe hyéronimien, Origines du culte chrétien (translated as Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution and often reprinted),

By his rigid application of scientific methods of research and judgment, by his caustic tongue and pen, Mgr. Duchesne was regarded by some as a scoffer and a vandal among pious traditions. But by those who knew him, he was regarded as a master of the sciences which are auxiliary to ecclesiastical history.[1]

He died in 1922, in Rome, and is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Servan.

Works

• Mémoire sur une mission au mont Athos (Paris: E. Thorin, 1876)
• Les Nouveaux textes de Saint Clément de Rome, 1877
• De codicibus MSS Graecis Pii II in bibliotheca Alexandrino-Vaticana, Paris 1880
• Origines du culte chrétien: etude sur la liturgie latine avant Charlemagne (1889)
• Christian worship : its origin and evolution : a study of the Latin liturgy up to the time of Charlemagne. M.L. McClure (transl.). London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1903. p. 557.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link). Next printing 1919 and 1931 (5th ed.) also in New York : Macmillan Company.
• The churches separated from Rome. Arnold Harris Mathew (trans.). K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co. ltd. 1907. p. 224.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Duchesne, Louis (1907). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: I. Provinces du Sud-Est. Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French)
• Early history of the Christian church from its foundation to the end of the third century. Vol. 1–2. London: J. Murray. 1909. p. 428. Vol. III
• Duchesne, Louis (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French)
• Duchesne, Louis (1910). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: III. Paris: Fontemoing. second edition (in French)
• Scripta minora : études de topographie romaine et de géographie ecclésiastique. Rome: École française de Rome. 1973. - commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Louis Duchesne.

Gallery

• 
  Duchesne, left, in Turquey.
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  Duchesne (below the cross) at Tarquinia, April 1885
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  Duchesne, as Director of the École française de Rome, with his students
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  Louis Canet [fr], Jean Marx and Duchesne, in Rome
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  Duchesne, in front, with Louis Canet, in the hat
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  Duchesne, left, in Auguste Mariette's house, in Cairo
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  Duchesne, as Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, in 1912
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  Duchesne in 1911.

Notes

References

• Hill, Harvey (2002). The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 23–31, 55–56.
  ISBN 978-0-8132-1094-0
  .
• Harvey Hill; Louis-Pierre Sardella; C.J. T. Talar (2008). By Those Who Knew Them: French Modernists Left, Right, and Center. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 42–66, 74–76, 82–88.
  ISBN 978-0-8132-1537-2
  .
• Joassart, B., editor Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes: Correspondance 2002. [122 letters between Duchesne and the Bollandists]
• Waché, Brigitte (1975). Monseigneur Duchesne et son temps Rome: École française de Rome.
• Waché, Brigitte (1992). Monseigneur Louis Duchesne (1843–1922) Rome: École française de Rome.

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