Catholic print shop in Beirut

The Catholic printing house in Beirut ( French L'Imprimerie Catholique de Beyrouth ), mostly known under its French abbreviation Imprimerie Catholique ("Catholic printing house"), is a printing house founded by the Jesuits in 1848 in Beirut , Lebanon . Her first book was The Imitation of Christ ( De imitatione Christi ) in Arabic in 1854. In the years 1876–1880 a printed Bible was published .

She began printing postage in 1939, and in the years that followed she printed many postage stamps for Lebanon and other countries in the Middle East. The volume on the classes of the Mu'tazilites in the Bibliotheca Islamica book series was printed in it, among other things.

literature

• L'Imprimerie Catholique de Beyrouth et son Oeuvre en Orient (1853-1903). Fascicule Supplémentaire des Relations d'Orient.

See also

• Jacques Paul Migne

Web links

• manresa-sj.org: Jesuit Institutions in Lebanon

References and footnotes

1. ↑ DNB 967638798/34 (The Christian minority in Syria, Diss. Uni Bonn, Fauzi Mardam Bek, 2003)
2. ↑ con-spiration.de
3. ↑ manresa-sj.org: Jesuit Institutions in Lebanon

Coordinates: 33 ° 53 ′ 25.6 "  N , 35 ° 30 ′ 29.9"  E