Guillaume Marie Charles Henri Mollat (1 February 1877 – 4 May 1968) was a French prelate and historian.
Biography
Guillaume Mollat was born in
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
on 1 February 1877.
He studied at the Day School for Children Nantais, then entered the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris in 1896, before completing his theological studies at the French Seminary in Rome. He thereafter integrated the École des hautes études and the Vatican School of Palaeography.
In 1933, he won the Prix of the Académie française for his work ''La question romaine de Pie VI à Pie XI''.
He was elected a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1954.
He died in
Erbalunga
Erbalunga or Erbalonga is an ancient fishing village on Cap Corse, in the municipality of Brando in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. The village of Erbalonga is the most northerly coastal settlement of Cap Corse, with vertigin ...
on 4 May 1968.
Publications (selection)
*1903: ''Mesures fiscales exercées en Bretagne par les papes d'Avignon à l'époque du Grand schisme d'Occident''
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*1930: ''Introduction à l'étude du droit canonique et du droit civile''
*1935: ''Lettres secrètes et curiales du pape Gregorius XI 1370–1378 relatives à la France''
*1950: ''Benoit XII (1334–1342): Lettres closes et patentes intéressant los pays autres que la France, publiées ou analysées d'après les registres du Vatican, Volume 1''
*1951: ''Le roi de France et la collation plénière (pleno jure) des bénéfices ecclésiastiques étude suivie d'un appendice sur les formulaires de la Chancellerie Royale''
*1966
''Les Papes d'Avignon: (1305–1378)''*1968: ''La Fiscalité Pontificale en France au: (Période d'Avignon et grand Schisme d'Occident.); Ouvrage conten. 2 cartes en coul. 14. Siècle''
References
Sources
*1968:
Henri-Charles Puech Henri-Charles Puech (; 20 July 1902, Montpellier – 11 January 1986, aged 83) was a French historian who long held the chair of History of religions at the Collège de France from 1952 to 1972.
Biography
A philosopher by training, he was intere ...
: ''Éloge funèbre de Mgr Guillaume Mollat, membre libre de l'Académie''
*1968:
Charles Samaran''Éloge funèbre de Mgr Guillaume Mollat, académicien libre non résidant''
External links
Guillaume Mollaton the site of the Académie française
Mgr Guillaume Mollat (1877-1968). Enseignement à la Faculté : 1919-1945on Persée
''La collation des bénéfices ecclésiastiques sous les papes d'Avignon'' (report)on Persée
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1877 births
Writers from Nantes
1968 deaths
Breton Roman Catholic priests
20th-century French historians
Latin–French translators
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia
Clergy from Nantes