Antoine Guillaumont (13 January 1915,

L'Arbresle L'Arbresle () is a Communes of the Rhône department, commune of the Rhône (department), Rhône Departments of France, department, eastern France. Composer Claude Terrasse and inventor Barthélemy Thimonnier were born in L'Arbresle. Population ...

– 25 August 2000) was a French

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

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scholar. He held positions notably at the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

and the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment (''grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris ne ...

, and was a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

. His archaeological writings are related to the site of

Kellia Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about 40 miles south of Alexandria. It was one of three centers of ...

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. As a Syriacist he was most interested in early monasticism and in the reception of the writings of

Evagrius Ponticus Evagrius Ponticus ( grc-gre, Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός, Georgian: ევაგრე ქართველი), also called Evagrius the Solitary (345–399 AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from Heraclea, a city on the coast of ...

. From 1954 to 1971, Guillaumont was the editor-in-chief of the academic quarterly ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'', edited by the

since 1880. During the 1980s. he was also the President of the

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote influe ...

Society which was the francophone branch of The International Association for the History of Religions

Works

* Kellia I Kom 219. Fouilles exécutées en 1964 et 1965, 6 vols. (Feuilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, t.XXVIII)(with François Daumas). * Les 'Kephalaia Gnostica' d'Evagre le Pontique et l'histoire de l'Origénisme chez les Grecs et chez les Syriens (Patristica Sorbonensia, 5), Seuil, 1962. * Aux origines du monachisme chrétien; pour une phénoménologie du monachisme, 1979 (Bellefontaine, Spiritualité orientale, no. 30). * Les 'remnuoth de saint Jérôme in Christianisme d' Egypte, Paris, Louvain, . * contributor to M. Albert et al., Christianismes Orientaux, Introduction à l'étude des langues et des littératures. * Un philosophe au désert, Evagre le Pontique, Vrin, 2004.

Sources

*Monachismes d'Orient: Images, échanges, influences: Hommages à Antoine Guillaumont, s. dir. Florence Jullien et Marie- Joseph Pierre, Brepols istoire et prosopgraphie 2011

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guillaumont, Antoine 1915 births 2000 deaths People from L'Arbresle French archaeologists French historians of religion École pratique des hautes études faculty Collège de France faculty Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Syriacists 20th-century archaeologists