Henri-Irénée Marrou was a leading French historian of the mid-twentieth century. A Christian humanist in outlook, his work was primarily in the spheres of Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the time of transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world. Precise boundaries for the period are a matter of debate, but noted historian of the period Peter Brown proposed...

 and the history of education

History of education

The history of education its part of the past and present teaching and learning. Each generation, since the beginning of human existence, has sought to pass on cultural and social values, traditions, morality, religion and skills to the next generation. The passing on of culture is also known as...

. He is best known for his History of Education in Antiquity.

He also edited the early Christian work Letter to Diognetus for Sources Chrétiennes

Sources chretiennes

Sources Chrétiennes is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac....

, a text the only manuscript of which perished in a fire at the University of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...

.

Marrou edited the collection Patristica Sorbonensia

Patristica Sorbonensia

Patristica Sorbonensia was a collection of academic works on patristically related themes, edited by Henri Irénée Marrou and published by Le Seuil.The volumes include:...

 published by Le Seuil.

Marrou also wrote under the pseudonym of Henri Davenson.

Publications

• Fondements d'une culture chrétienne, Paris, Bloud & Gay, 1934 ;
• Saint Augustin et la fin de la culture antique, Paris, De Boccard, 1938 (thèse principale) ;
• MOYCIKOC ANHP. Etude sur les scènes de la vie intellectuelle figurant sur les monuments funéraires romains, Grenoble, Didier & Richard, 1938 (thèse secondaire) ;
• Traité de musique selon l'esprit de saint Augustin, Paris, Le Seuil, 1942 ;
• Le livre des chansons ou introduction à la connaissance de la chanson, Paris, Le Seuil, 1944 ;
• Histoire de l'éducation dans l'Antiquité, Paris, Le Seuil, 1948 ;
• L'ambivalence du temps de l'histoire chez saint Augustin, Paris, Vrin, 1950 ;
• De la connaissance historique, Paris, Le Seuil, 1954 ;
• Saint Augustin
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
  et l'augustinisme, Paris, Le Seuil, 1955 ;
• Les troubadours, Paris, Le Seuil, 1961 ;
• Nouvelle histoire de l'Église. Tome I, 2e partie: De la persécution de Dioclétien à la mort de Grégoire le Grand, Paris, Le Seuil, 1963 ;
• L'Église de l'Antiquité tardive 303-604, Paris, Le Seuil, collection « Points Histoire », 1985 (réédition séparée du titre précédent) ;
• Théologie de l'histoire, Paris, Le Seuil, 1968 ; réédition, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2006 ;
• Patristique et humanisme, Paris, Le Seuil, 1976 ;
• Décadence romaine ou antiquité tardive ?, Paris, Le Seuil, collection « Points Histoire », 1977 (posthume) ;
• http://www.publications.ecole-francaise.it/cgi-bin/ecole-francaise/details.cgi?address=&request=%25281%253d1003%2520%25204%253d2%2520%2522Marrou%2522%2529%2520&visrequest=%253cspan%2520class%253dvisrequestuse%253eAuteur%253c%252fspan%253e%253d%2520%2522%253cspan%2520class%253dvisrequestval%253eMarrou%2520%253c%252fspan%253e%2522&listrequest=&database=&item=7&format=&previous=&sort=1003+4+31&template=&stateless=Christiana tempora. Mélanges d'histoire, d'archéologie, d'épigraphie et de patristique], Rome, École française de Rome, 1978;
• Crise de notre temps et réflexion chrétienne (1930-1975), Paris, Beauchesne, 1978 (posthume);
• Carnets posthumes, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2006.

External links

Henri Irénée Marrou Survey of literature