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Robert Devreesse
Robert Devreesse (28 May 1894, Cisai-Saint-Aubin – 1978 Orville) was a French priest and scriptor in the Vatican Library. His many works involve ground-breaking achievement in Greek (and also in Syriac) palaeography, research into the life and work of Theodore of Mopsuestia and the history of the Patriarchate of Antioch in its early centuries. During World War II, he was irregularly appointed provisional curator of the Manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque Nationale; he was therefore fired in August 1944. After WWII, he was Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Library until 1950.
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Robert Devreesse (28 May 1894, Cisai-Saint-Aubin – 1978 Orville) was a French priest and scriptor in the Vatican Library. His many works involve ground-breaking achievement in Greek (and also in Syriac) palaeography, research into the life and work of Theodore of Mopsuestia and the history of the Patriarchate of Antioch in its early centuries. During World War II, he was irregularly appointed provisional curator of the Manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque Nationale; he was therefore fired in August 1944. After WWII, he was Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Library until 1950.
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