Guillaume Mollat

Mgr. Guillaume Marie Charles Henri Mollat (born February 1, 1877 in Nantes , † May 4, 1968 in Erbalunga ) was a French prelate and church historian .

Life

Guillaume Mollat ​​was born in Nantes, where his father was a notary and his grandfather was a newspaper director. He studied at the day school des Enfants Nantais and entered the Séminaire Saint-Sulpice in Paris in 1896 before completing his theology studies at the French seminary in Rome . He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1900, after which he was chaplain at the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi . During this time he worked the Lettres communes de Jean XXII . To continue his education, he attended the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archival Studies .

In 1905 he became chaplain in Montmartre , then vicar at Notre-Dame de la Miséricorde . In 1914 he was to be drafted as a medic. In fact, however, he passed the diploma at the École pratique des hautes études in 1916. From 1921 he received his doctorate as Docteur ès lettres . As early as August 19, 1919, Guillaume Mollat ​​was appointed Professor of Church History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Strasbourg . He held the chair until 1945, which was followed by an honorary professorship in the same position. His work as a church historian concerned almost exclusively the Avignon papacy .

In 1936 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1954 he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . In 1955 he became prelate of the household of Pope Pius XII.

Works

Jean XXII (1316-1334). Lettres communes , 1904

• Mesures fiscales exercées en Bretagne par les papes d'Avignon à l'époque du Grand schisme d'Occident (1903)
• Jean XXII: Lettres communes ( la ), volume 1. A. Fontemoing, Paris 1904.
• La fiscalité pontificale en France au XIVe siècle (Période d'Avignon et grand schisme d'Occident) , Albert Fontemoing éditeur, Paris, 1905
• Introduction à l'étude du droit canonique et du droit civile (1930)
• Lettres secrètes et curiales du pape Gregorius XI 1370–1378 relative à la France (1935)
• Benoit XII (1334–1342): Lettres closes et patentes intéressant los pays autres que la France, publiées ou analyzes d'après les registres du Vatican, Volume 1 (1950)
• Le roi de France et la collation plénière (pleno jure) des bénéfices ecclésiastiques étude suivie d'un appendice sur les formulaires de la Chancellerie Royale (1951)
• Les Papes d'Avignon: (1305-1378) (1966)

A much more extensive, but just as incomplete, list of works can be found in Schlick.

literature

• Henri-Charles Puech, Éloge funèbre de Mgr Guillaume Mollat, membre libre de l'Académie , 1968
• Charles Samaran, Éloge funèbre de Mgr Guillaume Mollat, académicien libre non résidant , 1968 ( online )
• J. Schlick, Mgr Gullaume Mollat ​​(1877-1968), Enseigenemant à la Faculté: 1919-1945 , Revue des Sciences Religieuses, Volume 43, fasc. 3–4, 1968, pp. 355–365 ( online )