Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus (; 1856–1912) was an

Ottoman Greek Ottoman Greeks (; ) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey. Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet (''Millet-i Rum''). They were concentrated in ...

scholar of Greek Orthodox religious affiliation. He was an Ottoman and subsequently Tsarist subject. Appointed secretary of the Greek Literary Club of Constantinople (1881) he was made responsible (1883) for creating an inventory of Greek manuscripts belonging to schools, churches and monasteries. In 1887 he was summoned to

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to collect and catalogue all manuscripts in

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. The Russian Imperial Orthodox Society for Palestine charged him with the task of editing unpublished texts. In 1892 he became a private lecturer (''

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'') in Modern Greek and Byzantine History at

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. He was subsequently director of the theological section of the St. Petersburg Imperial Library.

Principal publications

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Ιεροσολυμιτική Βιβλιοθήκη
ierosolymitike Bibliotheke'' (catalogue of the Jerusalem patriarchal libraries) vol.1, St. Petersburg, 1891 *
Ανάλεκτα Ιεροσολυμίτικης Σταχυολογίας
nalekta Hierosolymitikes Stachyologias' (edition of mainly unpublished Greek texts), 5 vols.,1891; anastatic impression, Brussels, 1963

Sources

* B. Joassart, ''Analecta Bollandiana'', Tome 128, Brussels, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios 1856 births 1912 deaths Greek scholars People from Agria People from the Ottoman Empire Greek expatriates in the Russian Empire Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in the Russian Empire