Pierre Champagne de Labriolle (18 June 1874 – 28 December 1940) was a French
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
,
Latin
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ist and historian.
Biography
Pierre Champagne de Labriolle, conventionally known as Pierre de Labriolle, was born in
Asnières-sur-Seine,
ÃŽle-de-France
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on 18 June 1874. He was educated at the
University of Paris
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. He was employed as a professor of French literature at the
Université Laval in Montreal in 1898–1901, and of Latin language and literature at the
University of Fribourg
The University of Fribourg (french: Université de Fribourg; german: Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland.
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in 1904–1919,
University of Poitiers in 1919–1926 and University of Paris (
faculté des lettres de Paris
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) from 1926 until May 1940.
Labriolle specialised in early Christian literature in Latin and in particular
Tertullian
Tertullian (; la, Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 AD – 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of L ...
. Among his most notable works are ''History and Literature of Christianity from Tertullian to Boethius'' (1920) and ''La Réaction païenne : étude sur la polémique antichrétienne du Ier au VIe siècle'' (1934, ).
According to the scholar John Granger Cook, writing in 2000, the latter work was "still unsurpassed in its scope and erudition".
Labriolle was the father of the
Slavist François de Labriolle.
List of works
* ''Un apologiste du IVe siècle'', Lactance, Librairie de Montligeon, 1904
* ''Saint Vincent de Lérins'', Paris, Bloud, 1905
* ''Tertullien jurisconsulte'', Paris, L. Larose et L. Tenin, 1906
* ''Saint Ambroise'', Paris, Bloud, 1908
* ''La correspondance d'Ausone et de Paulin de Nole : avec une étude critique, des notes et un appendice sur la question du Christianisme d'Ausone'', Paris, Bloud, 1910
* ''La crise montaniste'', Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913
* ''Les sources de l'histoire du montanisme'', Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913
* ''Histoire de la littérature latine chrétienne'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1920
* ''Les Satires de Juvénal : Étude et Analyse'', Paris, Mellottée, 1932
* ''La Réaction païenne : étude sur la polémique antichrétienne du Ier au VIe siècle'', Paris, L'Artisan du Livre, 1934
Works in English translation
* ''History and Literature of Christianity from Tertullian to Boethius'', tr. Herbert Wilson, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1924
* ''The Life and Times of St. Ambrose'', tr. Herbert Wilson, St. Louis, B. Herder Book Co., 1928
References
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1874 births
1940 deaths
20th-century philologists
20th-century French historians
French Latinists
Classical philologists
French historians of religion
Historians of ancient Rome
Latin–French translators
University of Paris alumni
University of Paris faculty
Université de Montréal faculty
University of Fribourg faculty
University of Poitiers faculty