Henry Charles Lea

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Henry Charles Lea

Henry Charles Lea (born September 19, 1825 in Philadelphia , † October 24, 1909 there ) was an American historian .

Life

Lea's grandfather (maternal) was the well-known Catholic publicist and publisher Mathew Carey (1760-1839). His father Isaac Lea (1792-1886), who married Carey's daughter Frances Anne Carey in 1821 at St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Philadelphia, came from a Quaker family. Lea herself became a staunch Unitarian . Among other things, he helped finance the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia and was in contact with many prominent New England Unitarians, including Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909). In 1843 he got into his father's publishing business, in which he remained involved until 1880. Because of his poor health, he was unable to fully devote himself to business. He therefore began researching the history of the Catholic Church, especially the church history of the late Middle Ages .
His three-volume History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages (1887) was translated into German by Heinz Wieck and the Old Catholic Max Rachel (1870–1943) and published in 1905 by the Cologne city archivist Joseph Hansen (1862–1943). The French translation was done by the Jewish scholar Salomon Reinach . A Russian translation of this work was published in 1911/12. In the first volume of his history of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages , Lea advocated the thesis that Paul had already taught compulsion to believe in Galatians and "sowed the seeds that such a rich harvest of injustice and misery should bear". Lea's story of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages was "a classic, but with a harsh anti-Catholic perspective", judged the church historian Lothar Vogel.
Lea's account of the Spanish Inquisition is also a standard work. It was translated into German by Prosper Müllendorff from Luxembourg, an editor of the national liberal Cologne newspaper . In 1990 a Spanish translation of his book The moriscos of Spain ( Los moriscos españoles: Su conversión y expulsión ) was published. Lea was one of the most famous American historians around 1900. Lea has received awards from Harvard and Princeton Universities , the University of Pennsylvania , the University of Giessen (awarded an honorary doctorate on August 2, 1907) and the University of Moscow . In 1870 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1889 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1903 he was elected President of the American Historical Society. In 1905 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in the year of his death in 1909 to the British Academy . Lea's children donated his library to the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. At Princeton University and at the University of Pennsylvania, there is a Henry Charles Lea Professor.

His brother was lawyer and chemist Matthew Carey Lea , and like him, Charles Henry Lea studied chemistry in his youth and even published in the American Journal of Science on manganese oxide in 1841 .

Publications

  • Superstition and Force: Essays on the wager of law, the wager of battle, the ordeal, torture (Philadelphia 1866, 2nd ed. 1870, 3rd ed. 1878, 4th ed. 1892, ND New York 1971)
  • An historical sketch of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church (Philadelphia 1867, 2nd ed. Boston 1884). Also as full text.
  • History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (New York 1888) (German history of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages , Bonn 1905, reprint Greno, Nördlingen 1987, series Die Other Bibliothek , 3 volumes, ISBN 978-3-89190-860-0 )
  • Chapters from the religious history of Spain connected with the Inquisition (Philadelphia 1890)
  • Formulary of the Papal Penitentiary in the 13th century (Philadelphia 1892)
  • History of auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church (3 volumes, London 1896, ND New York 1968)
  • The moriscos of Spain: Their conversion and expulsion (Philadelphia 1901, ND New York 1968)
  • The Eve of the Reformation . In: The Cambridge Modern History , Volume 1. New York 1902. 652-692.
  • History of the Inquisition of Spain (4 volumes, New York / London 1906–1907). (German history of the Spanish Inquisition )
  • Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies (1908)

literature

  • Paul Maria Baumgarten : The works of Henry Charles Lea and related books , together with a discussion with the Cologne city archivist Professor Dr. Joseph Hansen. Münster 1908 ( archive.org ). Also published in English translation ( archive.org ).
  • Edward Sculley Bradley: Henry Charles Lea. A biography . Philadelphia 1931.
  • E.-A. Ryan SJ: The Religion of Henry Charles Lea . In: Melanges Joseph de Ghellinck SJ. Gembloux 1951. 1043-1051.
  • Hans Rudolf Guggisberg : Henry Charles Lea as historian of the medieval church . In: ders .: The European Middle Ages in American historical thinking in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Basler Contributions to History, Volume 92). Basel / Stuttgart 1964, p. 85 ff.
  • Edward Peters: Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909) . In: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1350). Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 89-99.
  • Anne C. Rose: Beloved strangers. Interfaith families in nineteenth-century America . Cambridge 2001.
  • Lea, Henry Charles . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 16 : L - Lord Advocate . London 1911, p. 314 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : History of Sacerdotal Celibacy  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ronny Baier:  CAREY, Mathew. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 259-263.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ^ AC Rose: Interfaith Families in Victorian America . In: K. Halttunen, L. Perry (Ed.): Moral problems in American life. New perspectives on cultural history . Pp. 222-243, here 227.
  3. ^ University of Pennsylvania Finding Aids
  4. ↑ H. Noormann (Ed.): Arbeitsbuch Religion und Geschichte , Volume 1. Stuttgart 2009, p. 278.
  5. ↑ Member entry of Henry Charles Lea (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 30, 2016.
  6. ^ Members: Henry Charles Lea. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 8, 2019 .
  7. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ See princeton.edu and princeton.edu ( Memento of May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lea, Henry Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1909
Place of death Philadelphia