Michel van Esbroeck
Michel van Esbroeck (born June 17, 1934 in Mechelen , † November 21, 2003 in Louvain-la-Neuve ) was a Belgian Jesuit and orientalist .
Life
From 1962 Esbroeck worked at the hagiographic Société des Bollandistes in Brussels , while he studied Armenian , Georgian , Coptic and Gyyz at the KU Leuven and the Université Saint-Joseph . In 1975 he defended his doctoral thesis Les plus anciens homéliaires géorgiens under the direction of Gérard Garitte . Étude descriptive et historique . He worked on sources in many countries including the USSR . He gave lectures in Rome and Paris . From 1987 to 1999 he was Professor of Eastern Christian Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Fonts (selection)
- Hermeneutics, Structuralism and Exegesis . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-466-20154-3 .
- as editor with Alexis Smets: Basile de Césarée : Sur l'origine de l'homme (Hom. X et XI de l'Hexaéméron) . Paris 1970, OCLC 758044821 .
- Les plus anciens homéliaires géorgiens. Étude descriptive et historique . Louvain-la-Neuve 1975, ISBN 2-8017-007-X .
- Aux origines de la Dormition de la Vierge . Aldershot 1995, ISBN 0-86078-454-1 .
literature
- Sevir B. Černecov as editor: Universum Hagiographicum. Mémorial RP Michel van Esbroeck (1934-2003) . Saint Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-88483-059-9 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esbroeck, Michel van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Jesuit and orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mechelen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2003 |
| Place of death | Louvain-la-Neuve |