Charles-Émile Freppel

Charles -Émile Freppel ( born June 1, 1827 in Obernai ( Obernai ), † December 23, 1891 in Angers) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and church historian.

Life

Freppel was trained at the seminar in Strasbourg to the priesthood and appointed in 1854 to the theological faculty of the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1867 he was dean of the church of Sainte -Geneviève.

After his appointment as Bishop of Angers he gave on 18 April 1870, the Archbishop of Bordeaux, François- Auguste -Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet, episcopal ordination.

On the first Vatican Council 1869/1870 he played a prominent role as a champion of the doctrine of infallibility.

In literary criticism Freppels responses to the works of "Life of Jesus " and " The Apostle " by Ernest Renan are still occasionally cited; otherwise Freppels literary creation was rooted in the zeitgeist and is therefore - both politically and theologically - obsolete and history.

1868 appointed one Freppel a Knight of the Legion of Honor ( Chevalier de la Légion d' honneur ).

Especially but Freppel did as Alsatian by his hostility against Germany out, and his interference in the Prussian Kulturkampf had to be suppressed by the French government, since it inter alia 1871, the peace talks by the President Adolphe Thiers had been disturbed by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. But Thiers ' successor, Patrice de Mac -Mahon, had to repeatedly slow down the attacks Freppels.

On June 7, 1880 in Brest elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he entered at the point of Félix Dupanloup to the top of the clerical party. At the age of 64 years, Bishop Charles -Émile Freppel died on December 23, 1891 in Angers.

Works (selection)

• Examination critique de la vie de Jésus de M. Renan (14th ed 1864, German, Vienna 1864)
• Examination critique of Apôtres de M. Renan (1866 ).
• Oeuvre (1869).