Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus ( el, Αθανάσιος Παπαδόπουλος-Κεραμεύς; 1856–1912) an Ottoman and subsequently Tsarist subject, Greek Orthodox in religious affiliation, was an

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scholar. Appointed secretary of the

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(1881) he was made responsible (1883) for creating an inventory of Greek manuscripts belonging to schools, churches and monasteries. In 1887 he was summoned to

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

to collect and catalogue all manuscripts in

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. The Russian Imperial Orthodox Society for Palestine charged him with the task of editing unpublished texts. In 1892 he became a private lecturer (''

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'') in Modern Greek and Byzantine History at

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. He was subsequently director of the theological section of the St. Petersburg Imperial Library.

Principal publications

* ''Hierosolymitike Bibliotheke'', (catalogue of the Jerusalem patriarchal libraries) vol.1, St. Petersburg, 1891 * ''Analekta Hierosolymitikes Stachyologias'' (edition of mainly unpublished Greek texts), 5 vols.,1891; anastatic impression, Brussels, 1963

Sources

* B. Joassart, ''Analecta Bollandiana'', Tome 128, Brussels, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios 1856 births 1912 deaths Greek scholars People from Agria