Gertrud von le Fort

Japanese: ル･フォール（英語表記）Gertrud von le Fort

1876‐1971
A female writer born to a Huguenot aristocratic refugee from France. Raised in a devout family, she studied theology, philosophy, and history in Heidelberg and Berlin, but converted to Catholicism at the age of 50 after receiving guidance from her mentor, the religious philosopher Troeltsch, and publishing her collection of poems, Hymns to the Church (1924), which praised the glory of the medieval church. Her autobiographical novel, The Shroud of Veronica (1928), depicts this religious experience, and caused a sensation in Catholic circles at the time as a book of warning against modern times that have lost God.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1876‐1971
ユグノー派のフランスからの亡命貴族出身の女流作家。敬虔な家庭に育ち，ハイデルベルクやベルリンで神学，哲学，歴史学を学んだが，恩師である宗教哲学者トレルチの指導をうけ，詩集《教会への讃歌》(1924)で中世教会の栄光をたたえるにおよび，50歳でカトリックに改宗した。《ベロニカの聖帛》(1928)はこの宗教的体験を描いた自伝的小説で，神を喪失した現代への警告の書として，当時カトリック教界で大きな反響をよんだ。

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