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BIOGRAPHY Descended from a family of ; he eventually became its director. He was an amateur Archaeologist and organized expeditions from Rome to Mount Athos , to Syria , and Asia Minor , from which he gained an interest in the early history of the Roman Catholic Church . In 1887 he published the results of his thesis, followed by the first complete critical edition of the '' Liber Pontificalis ''. ( Theodor Mommsen was also working on a critical study, but it was never finished). At a difficult time for critical historians applying modern methods to Church history, drawing together archaeology and topography to supplement literature and setting ecclesiastical events with contexts of social history, Abbé Duchesne was in constant correspondence with like-minded historians among the Bollandist s, with their long history of critical editions of Hagiographies . He also wrote ''Les Sources du martyrologe hyéronimien'', ''Origines du culte chrétien'' (translated as ''Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution'' and often reprinted), ''Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule'', and ''Les Premiers temps de l'État pontifical''. These works were universally praised, and he was appointed a commander of the Legion Of Honor . However, his ''Histoire ancienne de l'Église'', 1906‑11 (translated as ''Early History of the Christian Church'') was considered too Modernist by the Church during the "Modernist crisis" and was placed on the Index Of Forbidden Books in 1912. In 1888 he became a member of the Académie Des Inscriptions Et Belles-lettres , and in 1910 he was elected to the Académie Française . He died in 1922 at Rome and now is in Saint-Servan 's cemetery. EXTERNAL LINK
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