Henri Hyvernat

Henri Eugene Xavier Loius Hyvernat (* June 30, 1858 in Saint -Julien -en- Jarret, now part of L' Horme, Loire, † May 30 1941 in Washington ) was a Franco- American Koptologe, semitist and orientalist.

Life

Hyvnernat was the fifth of nine children of Claude and M. Leonide (born Meyrieux ) Hyvernat. His father was a reporter for the Gazette de Lyon. After studying in Europe Henri Hyvernat in 1897, appointed the first professor and founding director of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. In his research, he was interested in late antique, medieval and early modern history of the Christian Orient. Hyvernat gained a lot of literature, which now forms the fundamental basis of the library of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages ​​and Literatures and the Institute of Christian Oriental Research. His research focuses on the heritage of Christian Oriental communities is unique in the United States.

Hyvernats work was connected with several discoveries of ancient Christian documents in Egypt in the 20th century, including the Coptic library at St. Michael's Cathedral, next to the present territory of al - hamuli in the Fayyum area of Egypt. This library has about 50 manuscripts from the 9th and 20th centuries. In 1911 this collection was purchased at the request of Hyvernat by the American banker John Pierpont Morgan. Hyvernat had over 30 years for the study and cataloging of the Coptic library. A large facsimile edition, Bybliothecae Pierpont Morgan Codice photo graphice expressi 56 volumes in 63 parts, (Rome, 1922), which was published under the direction of Hyvernat is today an important source of Koptologen.

Works

  • Album de Paleographie copte, pour servir a l' introduction of the actes des martyrs de l' Égypte, Leroux, Paris, 1888
  • Les actes des martyrs de l' Égypte Tires of manuscrits Coptes de la Bibliothèque du Musée et Vaticane Borgia, avec introd. et commentaires par Henri Hyvernat, Leroux, Paris, 1886
  • Additis indicibus Totius operis, Corpus Christianorum scriptorum Orientalium; 125, Louvain, 1950
Semitic studies Coptic language
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