Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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Portrait of Henri Dominique Lacordaire, painted by Théodore Chassériau (circa 1840).
Lacordaire, ca.1855

Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( religious name Dominique) (born May 12, 1802 in Recey-sur-Ource , Département Côte-d'Or ; † November 21, 1861 in Sorèze ) was a French Dominican , preacher and theologian .

Life

Lacordaire, a brother of Jean Théodore Lacordaire , first studied in Dijon jurisprudence , but resigned in 1824 in the seminary of Saint-Sulpice one. He received in 1827 ordination and established in 1830 with Félicité de Lamennais the Avenir . At the same time he opened a free school with Charles de Montalembert , without wanting to submit to the laws of the university. When Pope Gregory XVI. Damned the Avenir in 1832 , Lacordaire submitted. After returning to Paris from Rome (1833), he captivated his listeners since 1835 at the instigation of Frédéric Ozanam and Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen at Lent Sermons in Notre-Dame de Paris with his oratorial talent and the fact that he had all interests and movements of the time, brought the cause of nationality and freedom, industry and politics into the circle of his discussions.

Since the new Archbishop of Paris, Denis Auguste Affre, forbade him to sit in the pulpit in 1840 , he stepped in order to free himself from his authority, after having written in the Considérations philosophiques sur le système de Lamennais (Paris 1834) and the Lettre sur le saint-siège (Paris 1838) had formally revoked his principles expressed in Avenir , on an Italian trip to the Dominican order. His Vie de saint Dominique (2nd edition Paris 1844; German, Regensburg 1871) is related to this step .

In February 1841 he appeared again on the pulpit of Notre Dame in the robe of the Dominican, in 1848 even as a representative in the constituent national assembly , but resigned his mandate in May. In 1850 he traveled to Rome and became Provincial of the Dominican Order for France. From 1853 he limited himself to running his school in Sorèze .

In 1860 he was accepted into the Académie française . He also made the many suggestions and plans for the reconstruction of the Dominican monastery Prouille .

Works and correspondence

  • Œuvres complètes (including his sermons) (Paris 1873 in 9 volumes)
  • Pulpit lectures in the Notre Dame Church also in German translation (Tübingen 1846–52, 4 volumes)
  • Testament du Père Lacordaire (1870; German, Freiburg 1872). Edited by Count Montalembert, this work contains his autobiography
  • Correspondance inédite à sa famille, etc. (2nd edition 1876)
  • Lettre à Théophile Foisset (1886, 2 volumes)
  • Correspondance, Tome I: 1816-1839 Friborg / Paris: 2001, ISBN 2-8271-0835-6 or ISBN 2-204-06926-4

Quotes

  • Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit.
"Between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it is freedom that oppresses and the law that liberates."
  • Ce n'est pas génie, ni gloire, ni amour qui reflète la grandeur de l'âme humaine; c'est bonté.
"It is neither greatness of spirit, nor fame, nor love that reflects the greatness of our human souls, but kindness."
  • La liberté n'est possible que dans un pays où le droit l'emporte sur les passions.
"Freedom is only possible in a country where law triumphs over passions."
  • Il ya trois actes de gouvernement: éclairer, soutenir, combattre. Éclairer les aveugles, soutenir les faibles, combattre les ennemis.
“The three tasks of the government are: education, support, defense. Enlighten the blind, support the weak and fight the enemy. "
  • Les mots de la liberté sont grands chez un peuple qui n'en connaît pas la mesure.
"The words of freedom are numerous in those peoples who do not recognize their extent."
  • Source pitié que les politiques qui se croient assez forts pour gouverner le monde avec des écus de cinq francs et des gendarmes!
"What pity [is] [necessary] for the politicians who believe they are strong enough to rule the world with 5-franc pieces and police officers."

literature

  • Martin, Christoph-M., Henri-Dominique Lacordaire. A man of his time , in: Müller, Franz: Dominikanerinnen und Dominikaner . Friborg, Konstanz 1988, pp. 98-112.
  • Müller, Franz, Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802-1861) - Existence between the fronts , in: Word and Answer 30 (1989) 2, pp. 58-63.
  • Montalembert (Paris 1862)
  • Chocarne (7th edition, Paris 1886)
  • Foisset (Paris 1870)
  • Bleibtreu (Freiburg 1873)
  • Nicolas, Étude historique et critique sur le Père Lacordaire (Paris 1886).
  • Klaus Kienzler :  Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 944-948.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eglise.catholique.fr
personal data
SURNAME Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dominique (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Dominican, preacher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Recey-sur-Ource , Côte-d'Or department
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1861
Place of death Sorèze