Patrologia Orientalis

Graffin, René

GRAFFIN, RENÉ (1858-1941) A French prelate and Orientalist. He was born at Pontvallain, Sarthe. He gave a decisive impetus to the study and editing of Eastern Christian languages and literatures. He studied at the French Seminary in Rome and then completed this work at Innsbruck. In charge of Syriac studies at the Institut catholique in …

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PATROLOGIA ORIENTALIS Beginning in 1886, Rene Graffin (1858-1941), professor at the Institut catholique in Paris, conceived the idea of adjoining to the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca of J. P. Migne a collection comprising the texts of the Eastern church fathers, which were to be printed in their original languages with a translation on …

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Porcher, Ernest (1855-1939)

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PORCHER, ERNEST (1855-1939) A French Coptologist. He was professor at the Collège secondaire at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, and then at Paris. He was an editor of Coptic texts (Patrologia Orientalis) and catalogs (National Library, Paris). BIBLIOGRAPHY Kammerer, W., comp. A Coptic Bibliography. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1950; repr. New York, 1969. RENÉ-GEORGES COQUIN Tags: Eminent

Nau, François-Nicolas

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NAU, FRANÇOIS-NICOLAS (1864-1931) A French priest and Orientalist. He was born at Thil, Meurthe-et-Moselle. He studied at the Seminary of Saint Sulpice, was ordained in 1887, and received his doctorate in 1897. He was a professor of mathematics at the Institut catholique of Paris from 1890 to 1931, becoming dean of the School of Sciences …

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Abraham Persa

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ABRAHAM PERSA The Sahidic text published by E. O. Winstedt in The Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1908, with the variants of the two folios: W. E. Crum, 1905, No. 318 and G. Zoega, 1810, No. 222, from a copy by O. von Lemm) is probably part of an encomium. Among other things, …

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