BALESTRI, GIUSEPPE. - Augustinian Coptologist and biblical scholar, b. 2 Dec. 1866 at Vernio (Florence), d. 29 Apr. 1939. His teacher was Fr. Agostino Ciasca (v.), under whose influence he definitively came. A priest in 1889, he taught Oriental languages, theology, philosophy and Sacred Scripture to his young confreres for over 20 years. He was numbered among the first consultors of the Biblical Commission in 1902. In his Order he held the office of first assistant general.

More than to his numerous articles in the journal Bessarione, B. owes his fame as a Coptologist to the work Sacrorum Bibliorum fragmenta copto-sabidica Musaei Borgiani, III, Rome 1904, which completes Ciasca's two preceding volumes, and to the edition, in collaboration with Hyvernat, of the Scriptores Coptici, I-II, Paris 1907-1908, in the Corpus Script. Christ. Orient. As a biblical scholar he acquired fame for Biblicae Introductionis Generalis Elementa, Rome 1932.

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BIBL.: Bollettino Storico Agostiniano, 15 (1939), pp. 49-52; L'Osservatore Romano, 29-30 Apr. 1940, p. 43.

Ansfrido Hulsbosch

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