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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:ALPHONSE See also:GRATRY (1805-1872)  , See also:French author and theologian, was See also:born at See also:Lille on the loth of See also:March 18o5 . He was educated at the fcole Polytechnique, See also:Paris, and, after a See also:period of See also:mental struggle which he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained See also:priest in 1832 . After a stay at See also:Strassburg as See also:professor of the See also:Petit Seminaire, he was appointed director of the See also:College Stanislas in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, See also:chaplain of the lcole Normale Superieure . He became See also:vicar-See also:general of See also:Orleans in 1861, professor of See also:ethics at the See also:Sorbonne in 1862, and, on the See also:death of See also:Barante, a member of the French See also:Academy in 1867, where he occupied the seat formerly held by See also:Voltaire . Together with M . Petetot, cure of See also:Saint See also:Roch, he reconstituted the See also:Oratory of the Immaculate Conception, a society of priests mainly devoted to See also:education . See also:Gratry was one of the See also:principal opponents of the See also:definition of the See also:dogma of papal See also:infallibility, but in this respect he submitted to the authority of the Vatican See also:Council . He died at See also:Montreux in See also:Switzerland on the 6th of See also:February 1872 . His See also:chief See also:works are: De la connaissance de Dieu, opposing See also:Positivism (1855); La Logique (1856); See also:Les See also:Sources, conseils pour la conduite de 1 esprit (1861–1862); La Philosophic du credo (1861); Commentaire sur l'evangile de Saint Matthieu (1863); Jesus-See also:Christ, lettres a M . See also:Renan (1864) ; Les Sophistes et la critique (in controversy with E . See also:Vacherot) (1864); La Morale et la loi de 1'histoire, setting forth his social views (1868); Mgr . 1'eveque d'Orleans et Mgr .

1'archeveque de See also:

Malines (1869), containing a clear exposition of the See also:historical arguments against the See also:doctrine of papal infallibility . There is a selection of Gratry's writings and appreciation of his See also:style by the See also:Abbe Pichot, in Pages choisies See also:des Grands Ecrivains See also:series, published by Armand-See also:Colin (1897) . See also the See also:critical study by the oratorian A . See also:Chauvin, L'Abbe Gratry (1901); Le Pere Gratry (i 9oo), and Les Derniers fours du Pere Gratry et son testament spirituel, (1872), by See also:Cardinal Adolphe Perraud, Gratry's friend and See also:disciple .

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