Sergio Gamerio

Sergio Gamerio (Sarkis al-Ḡamri; Sergius Gamerius, * around 1610 in Ehden , Lebanon , † 1668 in Marseille ) was an Arabist and Maronite bishop .

After studying (from 1625) and ordaining a priest in Rome and after visiting Nicolas Peiresc in Aix-en-Provence in 1635, before returning to Lebanon in January 1642, he offered Cardinal Richelieu to buy Greek and Oriental manuscripts for him in the Orient. Obviously in vain because he was suspected of selling rare oriental types to the English and Dutch at the time . Between 1648 and 1656 he was the nephew and successor of Gabriel Sionita as professor of Arabic at the Collège Royal in Paris. On January 25, 1658 he was appointed Maronite Archbishop of Damascus , later of Cyprus , but stayed again in Paris from 1659 and temporarily in Turin in 1662. He died in 1668 after a stay of unknown duration in Marseille.

literature

Nasser Gemayel: Rôle des Maronites dans l'acquisition des manuscrits orientaux et dans la rédaction de leur cataloguqe en France . In: Exposition Le livre et le Liban jusqu'à 1900 . Paris 1962, 213-217, esp. 213, 216.
Nasser Gemayel: Les échanges culturels entre les Maronites et l'Europe . Vol. 1. Beyrouth 1984, 103, 243, 245-48. 252, 287f. 298

Individual evidence

↑ A letter of April 3, 1660 to Sergius, “Archbishop of Damascus”, in Paris, is handed down by Cod. Paris. syr. 331; see. F. Nau: Notices des manuscrits syriaques . In: Revue de l'Orient Chrétien 16 (1911) 292.

personal data
SURNAME	Gamerio, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Arabist and Maronite bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ehden , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH	1668
Place of death	Marseille

[1] A letter of April 3, 1660 to Sergius, “Archbishop of Damascus”, in Paris, is handed down by Cod. Paris. syr. 331; see. F. Nau: Notices des manuscrits syriaques . In: Revue de l'Orient Chrétien 16 (1911) 292.