Pierre Batiffol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pierre Batiffol

French historian

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1861

Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1929

Profession: historian, Catholic priest, church historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Pierre Batiffol

  • Pierre Batiffol (27 January 1861, Toulouse, France – 13 January 1929, Paris, France) – was a French Catholic priest and prominent theologian, specialising in Church history.
  • He had also a particular interest in the history of dogma. Batiffol studied from 1878 at the priest seminary Saint-Sulpice in Paris, was ordained in 1884 and continued his studies at the Institut catholique in Paris and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.
  • He was taught by church historian Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne. Under Giovanni Battista de Rossi in Rome, he studied from 1887 to 1889 the archaeology, research and liturgical antique Christian literature.
  • From 1889 to 1898 and from 1907 until 1929, he lectured at Ecole Sainte-Barbe in Paris.
  • Together with his friend Marie-Joseph Lagrange OP, Batiffol founded in 1892 the magazine "Revue Biblique" for the historical-critical method of exegesis of the Old and New Testament.
  • In 1899 he founded the "Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique". In 1898 he became the head of the Institut catholique in Toulouse.
  • He used historical criticism method in his theological research.
  • He applied strict critical method while studying the Church dogma and history as well as manuscripts of the Holy Scripture.
  • He lost his chair in the Institute in the aftermath of the publication of Pascendi dominici gregis (8 September 1907) encyclical of Pope Pius X.
  • That was due particularly to his book on the Eucharist (1905) being put on Index librorum prohibitorum and his affinity to the historical criticism method.
  • He was considered falling into the Catholic modernism. Batiffol examined Codex Beratinus, Beratinus II, Codex Curiensis, and several other manuscripts.
  • He rediscovered and described Codex Vaticanus 2061 in 1887.

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