GUÉRIN, VICTOR-RENÉ. - Palestinian scholar, born in Paris on 15 Sept. 1821, died at La Tour (Seine-et-Marne) on 21 Sept. 1890.
He was a professor in various cities (1843–52, 1855, 1859), a student at the French School in Athens (1853), but above all an explorer. Over twenty-five years he made seven trips to the Holy Land (1854, 1863, 1870, 1875, 1882, 1884, and 1888); others to the Greek islands (1854), Egypt and Nubia (1857, 1886), the Regency of Tunis (1860, 1885), Tripolitania, and Malta (1885).
He published: De ora Palestinane a promontorio Carmelo usque ad urbem Ioppem pertinente (1855), a doctoral thesis; Etude sur l'île de Rhodes (1856). Travel accounts: Description de l'île de Patmos et de l'île de Samos (1856); Voyage archéologique dans la régence de Tunis (1862); La France catholique en Tunisie, à Malte et en Tripolitaine (1886); La France catholique en Egypte (1887). His major work remains: Description géographique, historique et archéologique de la Palestine; L'idée (3 vols., 1869), Samarie (2 vols., 1875), Galilée (2 vols., 1880). Popular works: La Terre Sainte (2 vols., 1881–83); Jerusalem Luigi Soubiguo