Edmond Vansteenberghe

Edmond Vansteenberghe (born April 26, 1881 in Winnezeele , † December 10, 1943 in Bayonne ) was a French historian of philosophy and Catholic theologian. Later he was Bishop of Bayonne .

Life

Vansteenberghe attended the Notre-Dame-des-Dunes school in Dunkirk and studied theology at the Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. He was ordained a priest in 1904 and received his licentiate in literature that same year. In 1906 he received the diploma for higher studies in philosophy from the Sorbonne and in 1908 he received his doctorate in theology in Rome. He then became a teacher (high school professor) at the Institution Libre in Marcq-en-Barœul . In 1910 he became director of studies. In 1913 he became a professor at the Grand Séminaire Saint Thomas of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux . During the First World War he was an infirmar , but in 1917 he resumed teaching at the seminary in Wardrecques ( Pas de Calais ). In 1919 he became professor of moral theology at the Grand Séminaire in Lille . In 1921 he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne (Doctorat ès-lettres). In 1924 he became maitre des conférences at the University of Strasbourg and in 1929 adjunct professor. From 1934 he was on the council of the university. In 1939 he became Bishop of Bayonne . He died there in 1943 shortly before he wanted to read mass.

He is known from a biography of Nikolaus von Kues .

Fonts

• Autour de la docte ignorance, une controverse sur la théologie mystique au XVe Siècle , Münster 1915 (reprinted in James Hogg et al. (Ed.): Autour de la docte ignorance: une controverse sur la théologie mystique au XVe siècle , Salzburg 1992)
• Le Cardinal Nicolas de Cues (1401–1464): L´Action, la Pensée , Paris: Alcan 1920, reprint Frankfurt am Main: Minerva 1963
• La vision de Dieu par le Cardinal de Cues (1401–1464) , in: Museum Lessianum, Löwen 1925 (128 pages)

In 1936 in Paris he published the French translation of the biography of Thomas Aquinas by Martin Grabmann .

literature

• Robert Javelet, Obituary in Revue des Sciences Religieuses, Volume 43, 1969, pp. 380-382, online