GUÉRIN, VICTOR-RENÉ. - Palestinian scholar, b. in Paris on 15 Sept. 1821, d. 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 of Athens (1853), but above all an explorer. In twenty-five years he made seven journeys to the Holy Land (1854, 1863, 1870, 1875, 1882, 1884 and 1888); others to the Greek islands (1854), to Egypt and Nubia (1857, 1886), to the regency of Tunis (1860, 1885), to Tripolitania and Malta (1885).
He published: De ora Palestinae a promontorio Carmelo usque ad urbem Ioppen pertinente (1855), his 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 fundamental work remains: Description géographique historique et archéologique de la Palestine: Iudée (3 vols., 1869), Samarie (2 vols., 1875), Galilée (2 vols., 1880). Popularization: La Terre Sainte (2 vols., 1881-83); Jérusalem (1889).
Soubigou, Luigi. “Guérin, victor-rené.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1230. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guerin-victor-rene.
MLA
Soubigou, Luigi. “Guérin, victor-rené.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1230. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guerin-victor-rene.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_guerin_victor_rene,
author = {Soubigou, Luigi},
title = {Guérin, victor-rené},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1230},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guerin-victor-rene}
}
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