Amann, Émile

AMANN, ÉMILE. - French priest, historian and theologian, b. June 4, 1880, d. Jan. 10, 1948. He was educated in Nancy and Paris. In 1919 he was called to the chair of ancient Church history in the Catholic faculty of theology of 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 in it, 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 collaborated on the DThC, later becoming its director from 1922 and editing about 20 volumes of it, 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 collaborated on 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 on the Revue des sciences religieuses, which carries in its 1st issue of 1948 his obituary (pp. 5-8) and the conclusion of his study Autour de l'histoire du Gallicanisme (pp. 9-28).

Salvatore Garofalo