Antoine Guillaumont

Antoine Guillaumont (13 January 1915, L'Arbresle – 25 August 2000) was a French archaeologist and Syriac scholar. He held positions notably at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His archaeological writings are related to the site of Kellia in Lower Egypt. As a Syriacist he was most interested in early monasticism and in the reception of the writings of Evagrius Ponticus.

From 1954 to 1971, Guillaumont was the editor-in-chief of the academic quarterly Revue de l'histoire des religions, edited by the Collège de France since 1880.^[1] During the 1980s.^[2][3] he was also the President of the Ernest Renan Society which was the francophone branch of The International Association for the History of Religions^[4]

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.

References

Further reading

• Monachismes d'Orient: Images, échanges, influences: Hommages à Antoine Guillaumont, s. dir. Florence Jullien et Marie- Joseph Pierre, Brepols [Histoire et prosopgraphie], 2011

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