Daniel Rops

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Henri Petiot , pseudonym Daniel-Rops , also Henri Daniel-Rops (born January 19, 1901 in Épinal (France); † July 27, 1965 in Aix-les-Bains ) was a theologically and politically active writer and poet, book author and church historian who was particularly dedicated to the life of Jesus research .

Daniel-Rops was the son of an officer, studied literature in Grenoble and became a professor in Chambéry in eastern France and in Paris . He made his debut as a writer in 1927 with the essay Notre inquiétude (1927), the novel L'âme obscure (1929) and various articles in periodicals such as Le Correspondant , Notre temps and La Revue des vivants .

In 1931 he approached Catholicism and came into contact with the Ordre nouveau through the philosopher Gabriel Marcel . He was active as a journalist for this movement, joined the so-called “Nonconformists of the 1930s” and published Le monde sans âme (World Without a Soul), Les années tournantes and Eléments de notre destin . From 1935 he wrote for Catholic weeklies and wrote the novels L'Âme obscure (1929), Mort, où est ta victoire? (1934), L'Épée de feu (1939), biographies and the spiritual drama Rimbaud (1935), a work about Blaise Pascal and Réflexions sur la volonté , which leads to a friendship with Charles de Gaulle .

In the years 1941-1944 he wrote Le peuple de la Bible (The people of the Bible) and Jésus et son temps (Jesus and his time), which he wrote with the monumental work Histoire de l'Église du Christ (History of the Church of Christ) and Histoire sainte continued. After the liberation of France at the end of the Second World War , he stopped teaching and devoted himself increasingly to work as a historian . He edited the magazine Ecclésia and worked for the encyclopedia Je sais, je crois (I know, I believe) of the renowned Fayard publishing house.

He met former companions of the Ordre nouveau again and worked for the European-federalist movement and the Mouvement Fédéraliste Français . In 1955 he was elected to the Académie française and from 1957 to 1963 one of the 50 governors of the Fondation Européenne de la Culture ( European Cultural Foundation ), founded by Denis de Rougemont .

Works

Daniel-Rops was one of the most widely read French writers in Catholic (professional) circles after the Second World War . His works were best known

  • Les Evangiles de la Vierge (Paris 1948)
  • The life of Jesus Christ (1950, 1966)
  • Paul. Conqueror For Christ. (Saint Paul, Conquérant Du Christ) translated into German by: Alfred von Buttlar-Moscon , Herold Verlag, Vienna, 1951
  • The Church in the Time of the Apostles and Martyrs. Alpenländische Verlagsanstalt, Innsbruck, 1951
  • History of the People of God (Herder 1956)
  • The Apocryphal Gospels of the New Testament (1958)
  • Jesus the Savior in His Time (1959)
  • He came into his own. The Environment of Jesus (1963).

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SURNAME Daniel Rops
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petiot, Henri (real name); Daniel-Rops, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French church historian, author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1965
Place of death Aix-les-Bains