Henri-Xavier Arquillière
Joannès Henri-Xavier Arquillière (19 September 1883 – July 1956) was a French Roman Catholic priest, theologian, apostolic prothonotary, director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology of Paris.
Biography
Henri-Xavier Arquillière was born in Firminy into a modest family. His father, Jean-Claude, was an employee, and his mother, Benoîte Octavie Garnier, a housewife. After studying at the minor and major seminaries, Henri-Xavier Arquillière received a degree in literature and a doctorate in theology from the Catholic Faculty of Lyon in 1907, with a thesis on Lamennais and Gallicanism. He was ordained a priest in 1907 at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière. Then, at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences where he was a student of Marcel Thévenin, Émile Chatelain, Ferdinand Lot, Adhémar Esmein and Robert Génestal, he graduated in two different majors: historical sciences and religious sciences.
In 1913, he was almoner and professor of philosophy at the Institution Sévigné. From 1919, he was professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Paris and, in 1921, he was also professor of the history of the Middle Ages at the Faculty of Letters of the Catholic Institute. In 1934, he was awarded a doctorate in literature thanks to his work on Pope Gregory VII (an essay on his conception of pontifical power) and political Augustinism (an essay on the formation of political theories in the Middle Ages). His thesis was published and in 1935 he received the Thérouanne Prize of the Académie Française. In 1939, he published L'église au Moyen Âge ("The Church in the Middle Ages"), for which he received the Eugène Carrière Prize of the Académie française in 1941.
In 1943, he was elected dean of the faculty of Catholic theology in Paris and held the chair of medieval and modern church history at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
Henri-Xavier Arquillière died in a clinic in Lyon and was buried in Firminy, his native town, on July 14, 1956, in the presence of Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon.
Works
- Lamennais et le gallicanisme (1907; corrected and enlarged edition, 1972)
- L'origine des théories conciliaires (1911)
- L'appel au Concile sous Philippe Le Bel et la genèse des théories conciliaires (1911)
- Sur la formation de la "Théocratie" pontificale (1925)
- Le plus ancien traité de l'Église. Jacques de Viterbe. De regimine christiano (1301-1802). Etude des sources et édition critique (1926)
- Les Concordats conclus sous le pontificat de Pie XI (1930)
- L'Augustinisme politique: essai sur la formation des théories politiques du Moyen-Age (1934)
- Saint Grégoire VII: essai sur sa conception du pouvoir pontifical (1934; awarded the Thérouanne Prize by the Académie française in 1935)
- L'Église au Moyen Âge (1939; awarded the Eugène-Carrière Prize by the Académie française in 1941)
- Histoire de l'Église (1941)
- La Troisième République: 1875-1939 (1947)
- Histoire contemporaine (1950; with Charles Jolivet)
- Évêque et problèmes sociaux en France au milieu du xixe siècle (1956)
External links
- 1883 births
- 1956 deaths
- 20th-century French Catholic theologians
- 20th-century French historians
- 20th-century French male writers
- 20th-century French Roman Catholic priests
- Apostolic pronotaries
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Institut Catholique de Paris faculty
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences faculty
