Michel Spanneut

Michel Spanneut (6 November 1919 in Steenvoorde – 28 April 2004 in Lomme) was a French priest and patristics scholar.

From a Flemish speaking agricultural family in the Nord Département, after primary school he entered the Petit séminaire at Hazebrook.

Following studies at the Université Catholique de Lille, where he obtained a doctorate in theology, and ordination to the priesthood in 1944, he completed a doctorat d' état under the direction of Henri-Irénée Marrou devoted to the influence of Stoic philosophy on Church Fathers from Clement of Rome to Clement of Alexandria (i.e. prior to or competing with various stages of Platonism).

In 2007 he donated his correspondence (1933–1951) with Maxence Van der Meersch to the Roubaix Médiathèque.

Permanence du stoïcisme de Zénon à Malraux, Gembloux 1973.