Dublanchy, Edmond

DUBLANCHY, EDMOND. - Theologian, b. at Bruville (diocese of Metz) on 21 Jan. 1858, d. on 26 Jan. 1938 at Differt (Belgian Luxembourg). After completing his ecclesiastical studies at Nancy, he entered the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers) already as a deacon, where he made his religious profession and was ordained a priest. For 4 years (1881-82 and 1884-87), he taught Sacred Scripture and dogmatic theology in Dublin; then philosophy and dogmatics in the scholasticates of his society, at home and abroad (Spain and the United States).

In Washington he obtained his doctorate at the Catholic University (1895) and published the thesis Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Bar-le-Duc 1895, pp. 442). Having returned to Europe, he taught theology at the seminary of Moulins (1897-1900), at Montbel (1900-1903) and at Differt (1903-10); in 1913 he was at the International Scholasticate in Rome and in 1925 he returned to Differt, to teach Sacred Scripture, history and then dogmatics and moral theology until 1935. He collaborated with theology journals (e.g., Revue thomiste, 1918-19) and with the Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. He wrote La voix de Pierre pour l'indépendance du Pape (Paris 1926). Death prevented him from bringing to completion a book on the Blessed Virgin.