Joseph Valla

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Joseph Valla (* around 1720 in L'Hôpital-le-Grand , Forez ; † February 26, 1790 in Dijon ) was a French religious priest and philosopher. He authored several academic textbooks that were in use until the late 19th century.

Life

Valla completed his studies at the Montbrison Oratory before joining the Congregation of French Oratorians . There he held various offices. He became known for his opposition to the bull Unigenitus Dei filius Pope Clement XI. The Bishop of Soissons , François de Fitz-James , appointed Valla to rain the local seminary . Valla stayed in Soissons until his patron died. His successor Henri-Claude de Bourdeilles took offense at Vallas views and forced him to resign. Since Valla was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Lyon , he returned there and took over a professorship in Lyon. There he was a co-founder of the Theologia Lugdunensis , which he defended in a paper from 1788. He retired in Dijon, where he died in 1790.

Two years after his death, on September 17, 1792, the Cours de théologie Vallas issued a decree of the Congregation for the Index Librorum Prohibitorum . In the Netherlands his textbooks were used until the end of the 19th century.

Works

  • With Pierre Barral and Eustache Guibaud (eds.): Dictionnaire historique, littéraire, et critique: contenant une idée abrégée de la vie et des ouvrages des hommes illustres en tout genre, de tout temps et de tout pays. Volume 4. Avignon 1759.
  • Institutiones theologicæ, ad usum scholarum accommodatæ. 5 volumes. Lyon 1780.
  • Institutiones philosophicæ, auctoritate DD. archiepiscopi Lugdunensis, ad usum scholarum suæ diœcesis editæ. 5 volumes. Lyon 1782.
    • New edition: Institutionum philosophicarum cursus: ad usum studiosæ juventutis præaesertimque seminariorum accomodatus. 5 volumes. Lyon 1806.
  • Defense de la théologie de Lyon. Lyon 1788.
  • Course of theology. Lyon.

literature

  • François-Xavier Feller, François Marie Pérennès, Jean Baptiste Pérennès: Valla (Joseph). In: Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes qui se sont fait un nom par leur génie, leurs talents, leurs vertus, leurs ereurs ou leurs crimes. Volume 12. Gauthier, 1834, p. 269.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace (Ed.): The Catholic Encyclopedia . Volume 9, Appleton, 1950, p. 474.
  2. ^ WB van der Velde (Ed.): Adjutorio Redemptoris. Dr. Andreas Rinkel, aartsbisschop van Utrecht, 1889–1979. Amersfoort 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Valla, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Religious priest (oratorian), philosopher, writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH L'Hôpital-le-Grand
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1790
Place of death Dijon