Enciclopedia Cattolica

BABUT, ETIENNE-CHARLES

Babut, Étienne-Charles

Volume II · p. 386 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

BABUT, ETIENNE-CHARLES. - Storico francese di origine protestante, professore di storia del cristianesimo alla Università di Montpellier, m. in combattimento nel Belgio nel 1916.
BABUT, ETIENNE-CHARLES. - Storico francese di origine protestante, professore di storia del cristianesimo alla Università di Montpellier, m. in combattimento nel Belgio nel 1916.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

He authored numerous memoirs on ecclesiastical history concerning the 4th–5th centuries, in which, alongside acute critical inquiry, there are not lacking the prejudices of his school that often vitiate his conclusions. He began with the study *Le Concile de Turin; essai sur l'histoire des Églises provençales au Vᵉ siècle* (Paris 1904); he continued with *La plus ancienne décrétale* (ibid. 1904), which, according to him, would be the collection: *Canones Romanorum et Gallos episcopales*, and which he attributes to Pope Damasus; *Priscillien et le Priscillianisme* (ibid. 1909). Even more controversial was the biography *S. Martin de Tours* (ibid. 1912); cf. *Anal. Boll.*, 32 (1913), pp. 439–72 and then *Anal. Boll.*, 38 (1920), pp. 5–136, where Fr. H. Deléhaie offers a thorough critique of the criteria guiding B. in his work. His last work was *Étude Biblique sur la Rédemption* (Nîmes 1914).

BIBL.: A. Lambert, s. V. in DHG, VI, col. 32. Pio Paschini