LAMBRECHT, HENRY-CHARLES. - Belgian theologian and bishop, b. in 1848, d. at Gand on 2 July 1889.
Having graduated at Lovanio in 1875 with the well-known thesis: De S.mo Missae sacrificio (Lovanio 1875), two years later he obtained the chair of dogmatic theology at the Seminary of Gand. He published an extensive commentary on the catechism of Malines: Verklaring van den Mechelschen Catechismus (3 vols., Gand 1882), a veritable summa theologica for intellectuals, which rendered great service to all the dioceses of Belgium. Having become bishop of Gand in 1887, he printed the treatises developed in the school: De Gratia (ibid. 1887); De Incarnatione (ibid. 1888); De novissimis (ibid. 1889). He left various manuscript works.
BIBL.: anon., Annuaire de l'Université de Louvain, Lovanio 1890, pp. III-VI; J. Bittremieux, La théologie dogmatique à Louvain, in Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses, 9 (1932), pp. 643-44; M. Grabmann, Storia della teologia cattolica, trans. into Italian by G. Di Fabio, 2nd ed., Milano 1939, pp. 390-91; E. Hoerdec, Histoire de la théologie au XIXe siècle, III, Bruxelles-Parigi 1947, pp. 206, 288. Antonio Piolanti