Ulysse Chevalier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ulysse Chevalier

French historian

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1841

Place of Birth: Rambouillet, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1923

Profession: historian, Catholic priest, university teacher, church historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ulysse Chevalier

  • Ulysse Chevalier (24 February 1841 – 27 October 1923) was a French bibliographer and historian. Born in Rambouillet, he published many works on the history of DauphinĂ©, e.g.
  • the cartularies of the church and the town of Die (1868), of the abbey of Saint AndrĂ© le-Bas at Vienne (1869), of the abbey of Notre Dame at Bonnevaux in the diocese of Vienne (1889), of the abbey of Saint Chaifre at Le Monestier (1884), the inventories and several collections of archives of the dauphins of Viennais, and a Bibliothèque liturgique in six volumes (1893–1897), the third and fourth volumes of which constitute the Repertorium hymnologicum, containing more than 20,000 articles.Chevalier's principal work is the RĂ©pertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge.
  • The first part, Bio-bibliographie (1875–1886), contains the names of all the historical personages alive between the years 1 and 1500 who are mentioned in printed books, together with precise references.
  • The second part, Topo-bibliographie (1894–1903), contains not only the names of places mentioned in books on the history of the Middle Ages, but, in a general way, everything not included in the Bio-bibliographie.The RĂ©pertoire as a whole is a mass of useful information, and is one of the most important bibliographical monuments ever devoted to the study of medieval history.
  • Though a Catholic priest and professor of history at the Catholic university of Lyon, the AbbĂ© (afterwards Canon) Chevalier maintained an independent critical attitude even on religious questions.
  • In the controversy on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin (sudario), he worked by tracing back the history of the cloth, which was undoubtedly used as a shroud, but he argued was not produced before the 14th century and was probably no older (Le Saint Suaire de Lirey-ChambĂ©ry, Turin et les dĂ©fenseurs de son authenticitĂ©).
  • In 2006 French historian Emmanuel Poulle wrote in a peer-reviewed journal that Ulysse Chevalier showed in this case intellectual dishonesty.
  • According to Poulle, Chevalier deliberately did not correctly mention the Papal bulls of antipope Clement VII issued in 1390.
  • In fact Clement VII never opted for the forgery thesis.In Notre Dame de Lorette.
  • Étude critique sur l’authenticitĂ© de la Santa Casa (1906), he built his analysis on false documents, produced in the XIX century, to argue that the miraculous translation of the Santa Casa (the Holy House) was a legend.

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