Paul Bedjan

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Paul Bedjan (born November 27, 1838 in Khosrova / Salamas (Iran), † June 9, 1920 in Cologne-Nippes ) was a Roman Catholic priest and orientalist .

Life

Paul Bedjan was born into a Chaldean Catholic family. He attended the Small Seminary founded in 1846 by French Lazarists (Vincentians) in Khosrova . At the age of eighteen on October 27, 1856, he entered the Paris novitiate of this Western Catholic order. On May 25, 1861, he was ordained a priest in Paris according to the Roman rite and returned to Persia a few months later. He brought a harmonium and a small printing press with him. From 1861 to 1880 he worked as a pastor, preacher and organist in Khosrova and Urmia , then returned to France to take care of the printing of liturgical and theological works in Syrian language and script. From 1885 to 1900 he worked in Ans near Liège (Belgium). Then he was appointed pastor of the Vinzentinerinnen at the Vinzenz Hospital in Cologne-Nippes, a task that he carried out in addition to his editorial work until his death.

He fended off repeated efforts to make him Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Salamas (based in Khosrova).

He was able to complete a New Syrian Bible translation shortly before the end of his life.

Works

  • Breviarium iuxta ritum Syrorum Orientalium id est Chaldaeorum (“Breviarium chaldaicunm”) 3 volumes with approx. 3000 pages (Paris 1886–1887), photomechanical reprint: Rome 1938.
  • Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 volumes (1890–1897).
  • Nomocanon Gregorii Barhebraei (1898).
  • Ethicon, see Moralia Gregorii Barhebraei (1898).
  • Homiliae selectae Mar Iacobi Sarugensis, 5 volumes (1905–1910).
  • Nestorius, Le livre d'Héraclide de Damas (1910).

literature

  • J. Legerer: Paul Bedjan . In: Die Kultur 13 (1912) 200–208 (with an autobiographical sketch).
  • J.-M. Vosté: Paul Bedjan, le lazariste persan . In: Orientalia Christiana Periodica 11 (1945), 45-102. ISSN  0030-5375 .
  • Rudolf Macuch: History of late and New Syrian literature. Berlin: de Gruyter 1976, pp. 218-222. ISBN 3-11-005959-2 .
  • HL Murre-van den Berg. Paul Bedjan (1838-1920) and his Neo-Syriac Writings . In: R. Lavenant (ed.): VI Symposium Syriacum 1992 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247). PIO, Rome 1994, pp. 381-392.
  • H. Murre-van den Berg, Heleen: Paul Bedjan, Missionary for Life (1838-1920) . In: Paul Bedjan: Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug [Homiliae Selectae Mar-Jacobi Saurgensis] , vol. VI. Gorgias, Piscataway, NJ 2006, pp. 339-369. (On- line ).
  • H. Younansardaroud: The Turkish texts from the book 'Manuel de Piété' by Paul Bedjan (1893) . In: B. Burtea [u. a.]: Studia Semitica et Semitohamitica. Festschrift for Rainer Voigt . Münster 2005, 489-525.
  • Khalid Dinno - Amir Harrak: Six Letters from Paul Bedjan to Aphram Barsoum, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Syria and Lebanon . In: Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 9 (2009) 55-73.

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personal data
SURNAME Bedjan, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Missionary and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Khosrova , Salamas (Iran)
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1920
Place of death Cologne trinkets