Robert Devreesse (28 May 1894,

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– 1978) was a French

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and scriptor in the

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. His many works involve ground-breaking achievement in Greek (and also in Syriac)

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, research into the life and work of

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and the history of the

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in its early centuries. He was irregularly appointed curator of the Manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque Nationale and therefore fired in August 1944.

Bibliography

*Le Commentaire de Théodore de Mopsueste sur les psaumes I-LXXX, 1939. *Introduction à l'étude des manuscrits grecs, 1954. *Le Patriarcat d'Antioche; Depuis la paix de l'Eglise jusqu' à la conquête arabe, 1945. * ''Le Fonds Coislin, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs II'', Paris 1945. *Essai sur Théodore de Mopsueste (Studi e Testi 141), 1948. *Les manuscrits grecs de l'Italie méridionale, histoire, classement, paléographie, 1955. *Les évangiles et l'Evangile, 1966. *Les anciens commentateurs grecs des psaumes,1970. {{DEFAULTSORT:Devreesse, Robert 20th-century French Roman Catholic priests 20th-century French historians French palaeographers French librarians People from Orne 1894 births 1978 deaths