Eusèbe Renaudot

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Portrait of Eusèbe Renaudot by Jean Ranc , 1689

Eusèbe Renaudot (born July 20, 1646 in Paris , † September 7, 1720 there ) was a French Catholic cleric , journalist , orientalist and liturgical scholar .

Life

As the grandson of Theophraste Renaudot , Eusèbe Renaudot was a member of a wealthy family with connections to the highest social, political and ecclesiastical circles. From 1665 to 1672 he was a member of the Congregation des Oratoire de France ( Congregatio Oratorii Iesu et Mariae ), a cleric (hence called "Abbé"), but only a minor , not a priest. He then worked as a journalist and politician, including in 1679 as director of the magazine "Gazette de France" founded by his grandfather in 1720. Due to his broad knowledge of foreign languages, especially oriental, he was an internationally respected scholar.

The "orientaliste-gazetier" was deeply involved in the political and ecclesiastical disputes of his time, including with Calvinists and Anglicans. Within the Catholic Church, Renaudot turned against the Jesuits and his "favorite opponent" Richard Simon . He tried to defend the Roman Catholic doctrine of the sacraments against the Protestants by demonstrating their agreement with the Eastern Churches. He also worked on the "Perpétuité de la Foy" (1669–1674) by Pierre Nicole and ran it independently with volume 4 a. 5 (1711-1713) continued. In this context are his numerous translations of the Eastern Church orders of worship into Latin.

Renaudot bequeathed his library of around 9,000 volumes to the Paris Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés . His handwritten estate (45 volumes) has been in today's Bibliothèque nationale de France since 1798 .

Renaudot's Collectio of liturgy , almost exclusively Eucharistic texts from the Alexandrian , Coptic , Ethiopian , West Syrian and East Syrian liturgy is still widely used today . Translations of the sacraments were published in the 19th century by Heinrich Denzinger . Other is so far unprinted.

The Accademia della Crusca accepted Renaudot as a corresponding member in its ranks in 1706.

Major works

  • Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum Jacobitarum . Paris 1713.
  • Liturgiarum Orientalium Collectio , 2 vols., Paris 1715–1716. Editio secunda correctior. Baer, ​​Francofurti ad Moenum 1847; Reprint: Gregg, London 1970. ISBN 0-576-99192-9

literature

  • Henri Omont , Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits de la Collection Renaudot conservée à la Bibliothèque Nationale . In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 51 (1890) 270–297.
  • A. Villien: L'Abbé Eusèbe Renaudot. Essai sur sa vie et sur son œuvre liturgique. Paris 1904.
  • JM Hussey: L'Abbé Eusèbe Renaudot . In: E. Renaudot: Liturgiarum Orientalium Collectio , Vol. 1 of the Westmead reprint 1970, unpag. Introduction.
  • P.-F. Burger: Art. Renaudot, Eusèbe . In: J. Sgard (Ed.): Dictionnaire des Journalistes (1600-1789) , Suppl. 3, Grenoble 1984, 181-192.
  • P.-F. Burgers: Pierre Nicole, La Perpétuité et l'Abbé Eusèbe Renaudot . In: Chroniques de Port-Royal 45 (1996) 135-153.
  • C. Detlef G. Müller:  Eusèbe Renaudot. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 34-44.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To be distinguished from the Institutum Oratorii Sancti Philippi Nerii , the "Oratorians".
  2. ↑ Entry in the membership catalog of the Crusca
personal data
SURNAME Renaudot, Eusèbe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Catholic cleric, journalist, orientalist and liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1720
Place of death Paris