BEDJAN, PAUL. - Orientalist, priest of the Mission, b. at Khosrova in Persia in 1838, and after having been a zealous missionary among the Christians of the Chaldean rite, d. at Cologne-Nippes (France) in 1920. His activity as an editor of ancient texts in the Syriac language was extraordinary.

Comprised in 36 vols. published over the span of 27 years. Among these must be mentioned the Chaldean breviary and missal, whose publication met with opposition from the Chaldean hierarchy. Also very celebrated are the 7 vols. of the Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, which comprise hagiographic material almost entirely unpublished, the 4 vols. of the Homiliae selectae Mar Iacobi Sarugensis, and the edition of the Book of Heraclides, a work until then unknown, by Nestorius.

B., even without being an eminent critic, rendered an incomparable service to Oriental studies.

Bibliography

BIBL.: J. M. Vostè, P. B., le lazariste persan, in Orient. Christ. Periodica, 11 (1945), pp. 45-102, where the documents concerning the friction between B. and the Chaldean hierarchy are published for the first time.

Ignazio Ortiz de Urbina

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