Henri Brémond

Henri Bremond ( born July 31, 1865 in Aix -en- Provence, Bouches -du -Rhône, † August 17 1933 in Arthez's - d'Asson, Département Pyrénées- Atlantiques) was a French literary critic, theologian and writer, Catholic philosopher with modernist sympathies, temporarily Jesuit.

Life

Even at age 17 joined the son of a notary of the Society of Jesus and spent his novitiate in England. On September 8, 1892 he was ordained a priest. In 1901 he met George Tyrrell, with whom he has since shared a deep friendship. 1904 Bremond, the Jesuits left again because he had trouble with his nonconformist temperament. The Archbishop of Aix -en- Provence, François Bonnifay, took him into the diocese clergy. The assistant to Tyrell's funeral at which Bremond, who had stood by the dying man, in civilian clothes blessed the grave, earned him a temporary suspension from the priesthood.

The French writer and founder of the Equipes Socials, Robert Garric, reported on the appearance of Henri Bremond: The Abbé was tall, gaunt, so huge; he considered one of the top, with a lively view, from which flashed with mischief; the lips thin and compressed, he scattered his subtle comments, sprayed and turned the conversation.

Bremond wrote for the Annales de philosophie chrétienne, the Correspondant, the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris. He was also a prolific author of books on literary themes and to Catholicism.

As the successor of Louis Duchesne, he was a member of the Académie française in 1923 selected ( fauteuil 36). He was also an officer of the Legion of Honour.

Reception

His main works include the unfinished monumental Histoire littéraire du sentiment elfbändige religieux en France depuis la fin de guerres of religion jusqu'à nos jours (1916-1936) and La Poésie pure: Un débat sur ​​la poésie. La poésie et les poètes (1926 ), which he co-authored with Robert de Souza. His main field of research was the ascetical and mystical literature of the École française de spiritualité, a French direction of spirituality. He was also one of the first biographers of John Henry Newman. The poet Maurice Martin du Gard, likewise a member of the Legion of Honour, Bremond une passion littéraire effrénée attested ( an unbridled passion for literature ).

The assignment to the modernists today is relativized. The correspondence with Maurice Blondel was published in 1970 and sparked a new interest in the work of Henri Bremond from.

Works (selection)

As author

• Thomas More. Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr ( " Le bienheureux Thomas More, 1478-1535 ," 1904). Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1949.
• Newman. Essai de biographie psychologique. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1932 ( EA 1906).
• Gerbet. 2nd edition Bloud, Paris, 1907.
• Nicole. Le prisme, de défauts the gens de bien, the moyens de profiter de mauvais sermons. Bloud, Paris, 1909.
• Apology pour Fénelon. 2nd Ed Perrin, Paris 1910.
• Sainte Chantal. ( 1572-1641 ). Lecoffre, Paris 1913.
• Maurice Barres. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1924.
• Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Laurens, Paris 1926 (L' art et les saints ).
• L' Abbé Tempête. Armand de Rance, Réformateur de la Trappe. Hachette, Paris 1929 ( Figures du passé ).
• Un clerc qui n'a pas trahi. Alfred Loisy d'après ses mémoires. Nourrit, Paris 1931.

• André Blanchet (ed.): Henri Bremond et Maurice Blondel. Correspondance ( Études bremondiennes, Vol 2, Part 1/3). Aubier, Paris 1970/71 ( 3 vols )

• Anne - Louis David (ed.): Lettres de George Tyrrell à Henri Bremond. Aubier Montaigne, Paris, 1971 ( Études bremondiennes; Vol. 3).

• Le charme d' Athènes et autres Essais. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1905 (along with Jean and André Bremond ).
• Introduction à la Philosophie de la Prière. Text choises. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1928.
• Divertissements Devant l' Arche. 6th edition Grasset, Paris, 1930.

• La littérature religieuse d' avant - here et d'aujourd'hui. A propos de la nouvelle collection " La pensée CHRETIENNE ". Bloud, Paris 1908.
• Pour le romantisme. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1923.
• Les deux musiques de la prose. Édition Le Divan, Paris 1924 ( Les Quatorze; Vol. 7).
• Le roman et l' histoire d'une conversion. Ulric Guttinguer et Sainte -Beuve. Plon. Paris 1925.
• Manuel de la littérature illustré catholique en France de 1870 à nos jours. Editions Spes, Paris 1925 ( together with others).
• La poésie pure. Un débat sur ​​la poésie avec Robert de Souza. 12th edition Grasset, Paris 1926 (La poésie et les poètes ).
• Mysticism and poetry ( " Prière et poésie ", 1926). Herder, Freiburg / B. In 1929.
• Racine et Valéry. Notes sur l' initiation poétique. 4th Edition, Grasset, Paris, 1930.
• La querelle you pur amour au temps de Louis XIII. Antoine Sirmond et Jean -Pierre Camus. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1932 ( Cahiers de la nouvelle journée, Vol 22).

• L' Inquiétude religieuse. Perrin, Paris

• What would Christ? Religious characters ( " Âmes religieuses ", 1902). Herder, Freiburg / B. In 1936.
• L' enfant et la vie. Bloud & Gay, Paris 1953 ( Paris Nachdr d ed 1902).
• La Provence Mystique au XVIIe siècle. Antoine Yvan et Madeleine Martin. Plon- Nourrit, Paris 1908.
• L' évolution du clergé anglican. Bloud, Paris, 1909.
• Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin de guerres of religion jusqu'à nos jours. Millon, Grenoble 2006, ISBN 2-8413-7188-3 ( Nachdr d ed in 11 vol Paris 1916/36, also online).
• Autour de l' Humanisme d' Érasme à Pascal. Grasset, Paris, 1936.

As editor

• Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: text choisis. Plon- Nourrit, Paris 1913 ( 3 vols ).
• Anthology of écrivains catholiques prosateurs français du XVIIe siècle. Crès Éditions, Paris 1919 ( along with Charles Grolleau ).
• Revue dominicaine. , 1920.