AMANN, EMILE. - French priest, historian, and theologian, b. 4 June 1880, d. 10 Jan. 1948. He studied at Nancy and Paris. In 1919 he was appointed to the chair of ancient Church history in the Catholic faculty of theology at Strasbourg.
In 1910 he inaugurated the collection Apocryphes du Nouveau Testament with Le Protoévangile de Jacques et ses remaniements latins (Paris 1910), and later published therein, in collaboration with L. Vouaux, Les actes de Paul et ses lettres apocryphes (Paris 1913), and Les actes de Pierre (Paris 1920). From 1913 he contributed to the DThC, later assuming its editorship in 1922 and overseeing approximately 20 volumes, in which he published more than 100 articles. He also wrote Le Dogme catholique dans les Pères de l'Eglise (Paris 1920) and L'Eglise des premiers siècles (Paris 1928). He likewise contributed to the Histoire de l'Eglise of A. Fliche and V. Martin, with vol. VI, L'époque carolingienne (Paris 1934), and part of vol. VII, L'Eglise au pouvoir des laïques (Paris 1940); and to the Revue des sciences religieuses, which in its first issue of 1948 contains his obituary (pp. 5-8) and the conclusion of his study Autour de l'histoire du Gallicanisme (pp. 9-28).