Didier-Pierre Diderot

Didier-Pierre Diderot (born March 21, 1722 in Langres ; † November 17, 1787 ibid) was a French canon and Roman Catholic clergyman, archidiacre de la cathédrale de Langres in the diocese of Langres and in Langres Cathedral , Cathédrale Saint-Mammès de Langres . . Didier-Pierre Diderot was the younger brother of the French writer , philosopher and educator Denis Diderot and one of the most important organizers and authors of the Encyclopédie .

In the cathedral of Langres

Live and act

Didier-Pierre Diderot was the youngest son of the wealthy Jansenist cutler Didier Diderot and his wife Angélique Vigneron (October 12, 1677 - October 1, 1748). She was the daughter of the tanner , tanneur , François Vigneron († 1679) and Jeanne Aramite Humblot († 1710) from Langres. Both married on Tuesday, January 19, 1712 in Chassigny . Didier-Pierre Diderot's father was close to the Jansenist movement in the Catholic Church . The couple had three sons and four daughters; the first son died one day after his birth on November 5, 1712, followed by Denis (October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784) and Didier-Pierre.

The brothers began their post-school journey both as Abbé . The sisters were Denise (January 27, 1715– March 26, 1797), Catherine (1716–1718), Catherine (1719– October 25, 1735), and Angélique Diderot (April 3, 1720–1749). Angélique Diderot joined the Ursuline Order.

Historical city map of Langres

View of Langres

His maternal uncle was Canon Charles Vigneron at the Saint-Mammès de Langres Cathedral . Langres, an important center of Jansenism, had around 8,000 inhabitants.

Didier-Pierre Diderot attended a Jesuit school in Langres, collège des Jésuites , from 1733 to 1743 and then from 1743 to 1744 he stayed in Paris at a Catholic seminary , seminaire diocésain, and also studied law . He finished his studies on Friday December 9th, 1746 and went back to Langres. There he entered the service in 1747 as secretary of the diocese of Langres charge de secrétaire de l'Évêché and then he oversaw the affairs of the diocese in an official capacity until 1759 as promoter de l'officialité diocésaine . The bishop at this time was His Excellency Gilbert Gaspard de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem (1691-1770). Gilbert Montmorin was appointed Archbishop of the Diocese of Langres on December 1, 1734; a function that was then fully fulfilled from 1735 onwards. In 1767 Didier-Pierre Diderot then rose in the church hierarchy to the canon chanoine de la cathédrale . During the time of his ministry, the promotion and establishment of Christian schools was particularly important to him.

His relationship with his older brother Denis Diderot was fraught with conflict, as expressed in the Lettre à mon frère (1760). Didier-Pierre Diderot answered the invitation to the wedding of his niece Marie-Angéliques rudely and did not come. On November 14th, 1772 there was a final break between the brothers.

literature

• Louis Marcel: Le frère de Diderot: Didier Pierre Diderot: chanoine de la Cathédrale et grand archidiacre diocèse, fondateur des Écoles chrétiennes de Langres. Champion, Paris 1913

Web links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres - History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Marcel: Le frère de Diderot: Didier Pierre Diderot: chanoine de la Cathédrale et grand archidiacre diocèse, fondateur des Écoles chrétiennes de Langres. Champion, (1913)
2. ^ Biographical data, geneanet.org
3. ^ Anne-Marie Chouillet: Trois lettres inédites de Diderot Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Année (1991) Volume 11 Numéro 11 pp. 8-18; P. 9 footnote
4. ↑ Raymond Trousson: Diderot. Éditions Gallimard (2007) ISBN 978-2-07-034170-2 , p. 10
5. ↑ Langres and Denis Diderot (Haute-Marne). Association Guillaume Budé-section d'Orléans. ( Memento of April 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Biography of the son Denis Diderot in German
7. ↑ Jansenism, named after Bishop Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), was a movement in the Catholic Church of the 17th and 18th centuries that was based on the grace doctrine of Augustine .
8. ↑ Louis Marcel: Le frère de Diderot: Didier Pierre Diderot: chanoine de la Cathédrale et grand archidiacre diocèse, fondateur des Écoles chrétiennes de Langres. Champion, (1913) ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Portrait of Denise Diderot (January 27, 1715 - March 26, 1797) Musee du Breuil-de-St.-Germain ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Pierre Lepape: Denis Diderot. A biography. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-35150-1 , p. 23.
11. ^ Charles Urbain: Le Frère de Diderot by Le Chanoine Marcel; Une legend: Diderot catéchiste de sa fille by Le Chanoine Marcel. Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 22e Année, No. 3/4 (1915), pp. 607-609
12. ^ Diderot à Langres. P. 9 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.