Michel Spanneut

Michel Spanneut (6 November 1919 in Steenvoorde – 28 April 2004 in Lomme) was a French priest and patristics scholar. From a Flemish speaking agricultural family in the Nord Département, after primary school he entered the Petit séminaire at Hazebrook. Following studies at the

Université Catholique de Lille The Université catholique de Lille (also known as the Catholic University of Lille), also « University and Polytechnic Federation of Lille » is a private collegiate university of Catholic-inspired institutions established in 1875. The u ...

, where he obtained a doctorate in theology, and ordination to the priesthood in 1944, he completed a doctorat d' état under the direction of

Henri-Irénée Marrou Henri-Irénée Marrou (; 12 November 1904 in Marseilles – 11 April 1977 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French historian. A Christian humanist in outlook, his work was primarily in the spheres of Late Antiquity and the history of education. He is b ...

devoted to the influence of Stoic philosophy on Church Fathers from

Clement of Rome Pope Clement I ( la, Clemens Romanus; Greek: grc, Κλήμης Ῥώμης, Klēmēs Rōmēs) ( – 99 AD) was bishop of Rome in the late first century AD. He is listed by Irenaeus and Tertullian as the bishop of Rome, holding office from 88 AD t ...

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and ...

(i.e. prior to or competing with various stages of Platonism). The permanence of

Stoicism Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century Common Era, BCE. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asser ...

in Western thought remained one of his major preoccupations. Some of his early publications dealt with

Eustathius of Antioch Eustathius of Antioch, sometimes surnamed the Great, was a Christian bishop and archbishop of Antioch in the 4th century. His feast day in the Eastern Orthodox Church is February 21. Life He was a native of Side in Pamphylia. About 320 he was bi ...

. A teacher at the Université Catholique de Lille from 1955 to 1989 he became Dean of the Faculty of Letters. He was an honorary canon of Lille. In 2007 he donated his correspondence (1933–1951) with

Maxence Van der Meersch Maxence Van der Meersch (4 May 1907 – 14 January 1951) was a French Flemish writer. Life Maxence, of delicate health, came from a relatively well off family — his father was an accountant. On 27 October 1918, he lost his sister, Sarah, who w ...

to the Roubaix Médiathèque. Selected Publications: Le stoïcisme des pères de l'Eglise de Clément de Rome à Clément d'Alexandrie (coll.

Patristica Sorbonensia {{primary sources, date=June 2008 Patristica Sorbonensia was a collection of academic works on patristically related themes, edited by Henri-Irénée Marrou and published by Le Seuil. The volumes include: 1 Michel Spanneut; Le Stoicisme des Pèr ...

, 1), Paris 1957. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, Paris 1969. Epiktet, in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, 1962. Permanence du stoïcisme de Zénon à Malraux, Gembloux 1973. Commentaire sur la paraphrase chrétienne du Manuel d' Epictète, introduction, texte (partiellement) inédit, apparat critique, traduction, notes et index,

Sources Chrétiennes Sources Chrétiennes ( French "Christian sources") is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac. Citations to the series are commonly made by the letter ...

no. 5003, Cerf, Paris 2007. Sources: Association des Amis de "Sources Chrétiennes", Bulletin no. 105, Octobre 2014 Médiathèque de Roubaix French and German Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanneut, Michel 1919 births 2004 deaths