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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 ...
,
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ist and historian.


Biography

Pierre Champagne de Labriolle, conventionally known as Pierre de Labriolle, was born in Asnières-sur-Seine,
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on 18 June 1874. He was educated at the
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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. The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius ...
in 1904–1919, University of Poitiers in 1919–1926 and University of Paris (
faculté des lettres de Paris The faculté des lettres de Paris was a French educational institution based at the Sorbonne. It was set up by the imperial decree regarding the University of France on 17 March 1808. It partly succeeded the arts faculty of the former University o ...
) 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Labriolle, Pierre de 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