Jean Orcibal (10 May 1913 – 18 December 1991) was a 20th-century French historian. A member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et d ...

between 1933 and 1939, from 1952 he was directeur d'études at the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

in his specialty, the history of modern and contemporary Catholicism. He particularly focused his research on Fénelon by editing his voluminous correspondence and on

Jansenism Jansenism was an early modern theological movement within Catholicism, primarily active in the Kingdom of France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. It was declared a heresy by t ...

. In 1990, he won th
Amic Prize
awarded by the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

Works

*1937: ''La formation spirituelle d'Angelus Silesius (Johann Scheffler)'', thesis, *1944: ''Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran et son temps'', doctorate thesis, *1949: ''Louis XIV contre Innocent IX'', *1951: ''Louis XIV et les protestants'', *1957: ''Port-Royal entre le miracle et l'obéissance'', *1959: ''La rencontre du Carmel Thérésien avec les mystiques du nord'', *1961: ''Saint-Cyran et le jansénisme'', *1962: ''La spiritualité de Saint-Cyran'', *1965: ''Le cardinal de Bérulle. Évolution d'une spiritualité'', *1966: ''Saint-Jean de la Croix et les mystiques rhéno-flamands'', *1982: ''Benoît de Canfield. La règle de perfection'', *1989: ''Jansénius d'Ypres''.

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Jean Orcibal
on librairie Droz
''Les origines du jansénisme, I : Correspondance de Jansénius''
on Persée
''Les origines du jansénisme. III''
on Persée 20th-century French historians Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études 1913 births Writers from Bordeaux 1991 deaths {{France-historian-stub