biography
| name: |
Montfaucon, Bernard de
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pronunciation:
[mõfohsõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1655–1741)
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| biography:
| Scholar and monk, born in Soulage, C France, the founder of the science of palaeography. A Benedictine monk at Saint-Maur, he went to Paris to edit the Latin works of the Greek Fathers of the Church, and published Palaeographia Graeca (1708, Greek Palaeography), the first work to be based on a study of manuscript handwriting. He also published editions of Athanasius and St John Chrysostom. |
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