Antoine Guillaumont (13 January 1915,

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– 25 August 2000) was a French

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and Syriac scholar. He held positions notably at the

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and the

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, and was a member of the

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. His archaeological writings are related to the site of

Kellia Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian Christian monasticism, monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about south of Alexandria. It was one of t ...

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. As a

Syriacist Syriac studies is the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity. A specialist in Syriac studies is known as a Syriacist. Specifically, British, French, and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of ...

he was most interested in early monasticism and in the reception of the writings of

Evagrius Ponticus Evagrius Ponticus (), also called Evagrius the Solitary (345–399 AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from Heraclea, a city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor. One of the most influential theologians in the late fourth-century church, ...

. From 1954 to 1971, Guillaumont was the editor-in-chief of the academic quarterly ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'', edited by the

since 1880. During the 1980s. he was also the President of the

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; ; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote wo ...

Society which was the francophone branch of The International Association for the History of Religions

Works

* Kellia I Kom 219. Fouilles exécutées en 1964 et 1965, 6 vols. (Feuilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, t.XXVIII)(with François Daumas). * Les 'Kephalaia Gnostica' d'Evagre le Pontique et l'histoire de l'Origénisme chez les Grecs et chez les Syriens (Patristica Sorbonensia, 5), Seuil, 1962. * Aux origines du monachisme chrétien; pour une phénoménologie du monachisme, 1979 (Bellefontaine, Spiritualité orientale, no. 30). * Les 'remnuoth de saint Jérôme in Christianisme d' Egypte, Paris, Louvain, . * contributor to M. Albert et al., Christianismes Orientaux, Introduction à l'étude des langues et des littératures. * Un philosophe au désert, Evagre le Pontique, Vrin, 2004.

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