Henri Omont

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Henri Auguste Omont (born September 15, 1857 in Évreux , † December 9, 1940 in Paris ) was a French librarian , philologist and Greekist .

Life

Henri Ormont studied at the École nationale des chartes , graduated in 1881 as an archivist paleographe with the thesis De la ponctuation . He initially worked at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as a conservator in the department of manuscripts. He later became inspector général des bibliothèques . He participated in the editing of the Catalog général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France (for Alençon , Avranches and Louviers ). At the same time, he directed research on old libraries and the history of book printing.

Ormont also lectured at the École nationale des chartes and was a member of the Société des antiquaires de France . Finally, in 1900 he was elected to succeed Arthur Giry as a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . From 1900 to 1921 he was president of the Société libre d'agriculture, sciences, arts et belles-lettres de l'Eure .

His private library, which remained with his widow after his death, was sold to the Université catholique de Louvain in 1948 to replace its own collections, which had been destroyed in the World War.

Publications

Ormont's catalog raisonné contains 1108 entries up to 1933, including:

literature

  • Van Moe Emile-A .: Le cinquantenaire de M. Henri Omont à la Bibliothèque nationale , in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes 1932, volume 93. pp. 432–435, texts intégral .
  • Alfred Coville: Hommage à M. Henri Omont , 1933, 14 p., Texts intégral .
  • Philippe Lauer, Émile A. van Moé: Bibliography des travaux de M. Henri Omont , H. Didier (Paris), 1933, 270 pp.
  • Mario Roques: Éloge funèbre de M. Henry Omont, membre ordinaire de l'Académie , in: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 84th vol., No. 6, 1940. p. 486– 500, texts intégral .
  • Clovis Brunel: Henry Omont , in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes , 1941, Volume 102. pp. 371–378, texts intégral .
  • Chris Coppens, Mark Derez, Jan Roegiers: Leuven University Library 1425-2000 , Leuven University Press (Louvain) 2005, p. 351.

Remarks

  1. ^ Henri Omont , in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes , Volume 101, 1940, p. 276 ( digitized version )

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