Hippolyte Delehaye

Hippolyte Delehaye (born August 19, 1859 in Antwerp , † April 1, 1941 in Brussels ) was a Belgian Jesuit and church historian .

Life

Delehaye studied at the Jesuit College and entered the Jesuit order as a novice in 1876 . In 1891 he became a member of the "Society of Bollandists " in Brussels, in 1892 he was co-editor of Analecta Bollandiana and in 1912 President of the Bollandists. He held this office until his death. In 1920 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy .

In his fifty-year career, Delehaye published over 1000 source editions, historical and methodological treatises, essays and other writings. In his best-known work Les Légends hagiographiques , Delehaye developed the methodical tools to examine the legends of saints with the help of historical source criticism . From its first publication in 1905 onwards, the work was debated bitterly not only in historians but also in church circles and was threatened by church censorship . An indexing could be prevented with difficulty and only after diplomatic intervention of the Belgian State finally.

Works (selection)

Les Légends hagiographiques. Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1905 (several editions and translations).
Les Origines du culte des martyrs. Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1912.
Les Passions des martyrs et les genres littéraires (= Subsidia hagiographica. Vol. 13, ISSN 0777-8112 ). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1921.
Sanctus. Essai sur le culte des saints dans l'antiquité (= Subsidia hagiographica. Vol. 17). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1927.

literature

Thomas J. Heffernan: Hippolyte Delehaye. (1859-1941). In: Helen Damico, Donald Fennema, Karmen Lenz (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Volume 2: Literature and Philology (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2071). Garland, New York et al. 1998, ISBN 0-8153-2890-7 , pp. 215-227.
Bernard Joassart: Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme (= Subsidia hagiographica. Vol. 81). 2 volumes. Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 2000, ISBN 2-87365-009-5 , review by Dieter von der Nahmer in Francia 29/1.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 20, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Delehaye, Hippolyte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian chaplain, Bollandist and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1941
Place of death	Brussels

[1] Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 20, 2020 .