Henri Bremond

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Henri Bremond (born July 31, 1865 in Aix-en-Provence , Département Bouches-du-Rhône , † August 17, 1933 in Arthez-d'Asson , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) was a French literary critic, theologian and writer, Catholic philosopher with modernist sympathies, at times Jesuit .

Life

The son of a notary joined the Society of Jesus at the age of 17 and spent his novitiate in England. He was ordained a priest on September 8, 1892 . In 1901 he met George Tyrrell , with whom he has been close friends ever since. In 1904 Bremond left the Jesuits again because of his non-conformist temperament. The Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence, François Bonnifay, accepted him into the diocese clergy. Assistance at Tyrrell's funeral, at which Bremond, who had stood by the dying man, blessed the grave in civilian clothes, earned him a temporary suspension from the priesthood. His work Sainte Chantal was placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum in 1913 . The index reviewer was Joseph Lemius, the main author of the Pascendi encyclical , who discovered modernist tendencies in the work.

The French writer and founder of the Equipes Socials , Robert Garric, reports on the appearance of Henri Bremond: The Abbé was tall, gaunt, even huge; he looked at one from above, with a lively look from which the mischief flashed out; His lips tight and pressed together, he sprinkled in his subtle remarks, sprayed and directed the conversation.

Bremond wrote for the Annales de philosophie chrétienne , the Correspondant , the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris . He was also a prolific author of books on literary subjects and Catholicism.

As successor to Louis Duchesne , he was elected a member of the Académie française in 1923 ( Fauteuil 36 ). He was also an officer in the Legion of Honor .

reception

His major works include the unfinished, monumental, eleven-volume Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours (1916–1936) and La Poésie pure  : Un débat sur la poésie. La poésie et les poètes (1926), which he wrote with Robert de Souza. His main research area was the ascetic and mystical literature of the École française de spiritualité , a French direction of spirituality. He was also one of the earliest biographers of John Henry Newman . The poet Maurice Martin du Gard , also a member of the Legion of Honor, attested Bremond une passion littéraire effrénée (an unbridled passion for literature).

The assignment to the modernists is relativized nowadays. The correspondence with Maurice Blondel was published around 1970 and sparked a new interest in the work of Henri Bremond.

Works (selection)

author

Biographies
  • Thomas More . Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr (“Le bienheureux Thomas More, 1478-1535”, 1904). Habbel Verlag, Regensburg 1949.
  • Newman . Essai de biographie psychologique . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1932 (EA 1906).
  • Gerbet . 2nd edition Bloud, Paris 1907.
  • Nicole . Le prisme, de défauts des gens de bien, des moyens de profiter de mauvais sermons . Bloud, Paris 1909.
  • Apologie pour Fénelon . 2nd edition Perrin, Paris 1910.
  • Sainte Chantal . (1572-1641) . Lecoffre, Paris 1912.
  • Maurice Barrès . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1924.
  • Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie . Laurens, Paris 1926 (L'art et les saints).
  • L'Abbé Tempête. Armand de Rancé , reformateur de la Trappe . Hachette, Paris 1929 (Figures du passé).
  • Un clerc qui n'a pas trahi. Alfred Loisy d'après ses mémoires . Nourrit, Paris 1931.
Correspondence
  • André Blanchet (eds.): Henri Bremond et Maurice Blondel. Correspondance (Études bremondiennes; Vol. 2, parts 1/3). Aubier, Paris 1970/71 (3 vol.)
  1. Les commencements d'une amitié. 1897-1904 . 1970.
  2. Le grand dessein d'Henri Bremond. 1905-1920 . 1971.
  3. Combats pour la prière et pour la poésie. 1921-1933 . 1971.
  • Anne Louis-David (Ed.): Lettres de George Tyrrell à Henri Bremond . Aubier Montaigne, Paris 1971 (Études bremondiennes; Vol. 3).
Essays
  • Le charme d'Athènes et autres essais . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1905 (together with Jean and André Brémond).
  • Introduction à la Philosophy de la Prière. Textes choisés . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1928.
  • Divertissements Devant l'Arche . 6th edition, Grasset, Paris 1930.
Non-fiction critical literature
  • La littérature religieuse d'avant-hier et d'aujourd'hui. Speaking of the nouvelle collection "La pensée chretiènne" . Bloud, Paris 1908.
  • Pour le romantisme . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1923.
  • Les two musiques de la prose . Édition Le Divan, Paris 1924 (Les quatorze; Vol. 7).
  • Le roman et l'histoire d'une conversion. Ulric Guttinguer and Sainte-Beuve . Plon. Paris 1925.
  • Manuel illustré de la literature catholique en France de 1870 à nos jours . Éditions Spes, Paris 1925 (together with others).
  • La poésie pure. Un débat sur la poésie avec Robert de Souza . 12th edition. Grasset, Paris 1926 (La poésie et les poètes).
  • Mysticism and poetry (“Prière et poésie”, 1926). Herder, Freiburg / B. 1929.
  • Racine and Valery . Notes sur l'initiation poétique . 4th ed. Grasset, Paris 1930.
  • La querelle you pure amour au temps de Louis XIII. Antoine Sirmond and Jean-Pierre Camus . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1932 (Cahiers de la nouvelle journée; vol. 22).
Religious non-fiction books
  • L'Inquiétude religieuse . Perrin, Paris
  1. Aubes et lendemains de conversion . 11th edition 1930 (EA 1901).
  2. La conversion de Pascal . 7th edition 1933 (EA 1901).
  • What Would Christ Do? Religious characters ("Âmes religieuses", 1902). Herder, Freiburg / B. 1936.
  • L'enfant et la vie . Bloud & Gay, Paris 1953 (reprint of the Paris 1902 edition).
  • La Provence Mystique au XVIIe siècle. Antoine Yvan and Madeleine Martin . Plon-Nourrit, Paris 1908.
  • L'évolution du clergé anglican . Bloud, Paris 1909.
  • Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours . Millon, Grenoble 2006, ISBN 2-8413-7188-3 (reprint of the edition in 11 vol. Paris 1916/36; also online ).
  • Autour de l'Humanisme d' Erasme à Pascal . Grasset, Paris 1936.

editor

literature

  • Anonymous: Henri Bremond (1865–1933). Actes du Volloque d'Aix, 19 et 20 Mars 1966 . Édition Ophrys, Aix-en-Provence 1967.
  • Albert Autin: Henri Brémond . Lethielleux, Paris 1946.
  • André Blanchet: Henri Bremond 1865-1904 . Aubier Montaigne, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-7007-0012-0 .
  • Charles Chauvin: Petite vie de Henri Bremond. 1865-1933 . Desclée de Bouwer, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-220-05707-0 .
  • Étienne Fouilloux, François Trémolières: Histoire et littérature chez Henri Brémond . Millon, Grenoble 2009, ISBN 978-2-84137-253-9 .
  • Émile Goichot: Henri Bremond. Histoire du sentiment religieux; genèse et stratégie d'une entreprise littéraire . Editions Ophrys, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7080-0514-6 (also dissertation, University of Paris 1982).
  • Clément Moisan: Henri Bremond et la poésie pure . Paillart, Abbeville 1967. (also dissertation, University of Paris 1962).
  • François Trémolières: Henri Bremond modernist? Un état de la question . In: Hubert Wolf (Ed.): “In a wild, unbridled hunt for the new.” 100 years of modernism and anti-modernism in the Catholic Church. Schöningh, Paderborn 2009. ISBN 978-3-506-76511-6 , pp. 187-200.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Trémolières: L'abbé Bremond à l'Index . In: Mélanges de l'école française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée 121 (2009), pp. 463-483.
  2. ^ Robert Garric: Father Teilhard and Miss Zanta. In: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Letters to Leontine Zanta. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967. p. 11. The description refers to a meeting in 1925 at which Teilhard de Chardin was also present.
personal data
SURNAME Bremond, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leblanc, Sylvain (pseudonym); Brémond, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French literary critic, theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1933
Place of death Arthez-d'Asson