Gustave Constant
Gustave Léon Marie Joseph Constant (January 28 1869 – April 19 1940) was a French historian and professor.
Biography
Gustave Constant was born on January 28, 1869, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre in the Vendée department. He was ordained a priest in April, 1893. After graduating in history and geography, he studied to become a doctor of literature. Constant pursued further studies at the École francaise de Rome. Called to the University of Liverpool, he became a Fellow and Professor of Modern Ecclesiastical History. From November, 1908, until his death, he taught Church History at the Catholic Institute of Paris.[1]
During World War I he was a titular chaplain of the navy, and was wounded in battle. In June, 1917, he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Abbé Constant was demobilize in June 1919.
He died in Cannes on April 19, 1940.
Works
- Étude et catalogue critique de documents sur le Concile de Trent (1910)
- La légation du cardinal Morone près l'empereur et le Concile de Trente (1922)
- Concession à l'Allemagne de la communion sous les deux espèces: étude sur les débuts de la Réforme catholique en Allemagne (1548-1621) (1923)
- L'église de France sous le consulat et l'empire (1800–1814) (1928)
- La Reforme en Angleterre (2 vols., 1930–39)
In English translation
- The Reformation in England
- The English Schism, Henry VIII (1509–1547) — (translated by R.E. Scantlebury, with preface by Hilaire Belloc, 1934)
- Introduction of the Reformation into England, Edward VI (1547–1553) — (translated by E.I. Watkin, 1942)
Notes
- ↑ Hoehn, Matthew (1952). "Reverend Gustave Léon Marie Constant (1869–1940)." In: Catholic Authors. Newark, N.J.: St. Mary's Abbey, p. 99.
Further reading
- Hoffman, Ross (1938). Tradition and Progress. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company.
