Jean de Menasce

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left to right: Jean de Menasce, Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant and Eric Siepmann; photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell , 1922

Jean de Menasce (born December 24, 1902 in Alexandria , Egypt , † 1973 ) was a French Dominican of Egyptian origin. The theologian and orientalist spoke 15 languages, including Hebrew and Syriac . He has published numerous books and articles on Judaism , Zionism and Hasidism, as well as in the field of Iranian studies . From 1949 to 1970 he was research director ( directeur d'études ) at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), where a chair was set up especially for him.

Jean de Menasce was an influential figure among French Catholic intellectuals . Close friends with Stanislas Fumet , Charles Du Bos , Jacques Maritain and Maurice Sachs , he played an important role in developing the dialogue between Judaism and Christianity. As a professor of missiology and religious history at the University of Freiburg , he was one of the nine participants on the Catholic side of the Seelisberg Conference in 1947 .

Life

Jean de Menasce's family was part of the Jewish aristocracy in Alexandria. His father, Baron Félix de Menasce (1865–1943), a banker of Austro-Hungarian origin, had been raised to the nobility there by the emperor . Jean de Menasce was the cousin of the writer Georges Cattaui .

His studies led de Menasce to Paris and at the University of Oxford , where he and Graham Greene , the Balliol College visited. As a translator of works by TS Eliot and Bertrand Russell , he had already acquired reputation when he in 1926 to Catholicism converted . In 1930 he entered the Dominican Order , and was educated in Saulchoir , the study center of the French province of the Dominicans in Kain , Belgium , before being named 1935 Father ordained was.

Publications

Books
  • Quand Israël aime Dieu: Introduction au hassidisme , foreword by Guy Monnot, Plon, 1931; Cerf, 1992; Cerf, 2007
  • Réflexions sur Zurvan , A locust's leg, 1962
  • La Porte sur le Jardin , edited by Robert Rochefort, introduction by Charles Journet , Cerf, 1975
items
  • Situation du sionisme in Chroniques; Roseau d'or Collection No. 5, 1928

bibliography

Books
  • Dominique Avon: Les Frères prêcheurs en Orient: Les dominicains du Caire (années 1910 - années 1960) . Cerf / Histoire, 2005 Excerpts from the Internet
  • Philippe Chenaux: Entre Maurras et Maritain: Une génération intellectuelle catholique (1920-1930) . Cerf, 1999
  • Frédéric Gugelot: La Conversion des intellectuels au catholicisme en France, 1885-1935 . CNRS Editions, 1998
items
  • R. Curiel: En souvenir de Jean de Menasce (1902-1973) in Studia Iranica Chauvigny, 1978, edition 7, no.2
  • G. Lazard: Jean de Menasce (1902-1973) in Journal asiatique, 1974, issue 262, no. 3-4
  • Jean-Michel Roessli (Ed.): Jean de Menasce, 1902-1973 . Cantonal and University Library Friborg , 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Klöckener: The International Council of Christians and Jews and the University of Friborg in Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Time for New Commitments , 2009. Retrieved on August 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Menasce, Jean de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Dominicans of Egyptian origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH 1973