Auguste-François Maunoury

Who was Auguste-François Maunoury?

Auguste-François Maunoury was a Catholic Hellenist and exegete.

He studied classics at the preparatory seminary in Séez, to which institution he returned after his theological course, and where he spent the whole of his long priestly career. Until 1852, he taught the classics, and then became professor of rhetoric, a position which he occupied for twenty-two years. During this period, keeping abreast of the progress of Hellenistic studies in France and Germany, he composed, published, and revised those of his works which gained him a reputation as a Greek scholar. Towards 1866, Maunoury began his work as a commentator of Holy Writ, by treating some sections of the Gospel in the Semaine Catholique of his native diocese; but it was only after 1875, that he gave himself fully to the pursuit of Biblical studies. In 1877, he became canon of the cathedral of Séez; and the following year, he began to publish his commentaries on all the Epistles of the New Testament.

These commentaries appeared in five volumes, as follows:

⁕Com. sur L'Epître aux Romains