Daniel-Rops, Henri << da NYEHL ruhps, ahn REE >> (1901-1965), was the pen name of Henri-Jules Periot, a French author and religious historian. He gained his greatest recognition for Jesus in His Times (1945), a brief history of the life of Jesus Christ. His 10-volume History of the Church of Christ (1948-1965) traces the history of the Christian church. Daniel-Rops was born in Epinal. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, he wrote novels and essays that radiated religious devotion and concern for humanity’s loss of genuine religion. During World War II, the Nazis tried to destroy his Sacred History (1943), a history of the Jews. But a few copies survived, and the book was later reissued. In 1955, Daniel-Rops was elected to the French Academy.
