Micheline Albert (1925-–2014) was a French Syriac scholar. After earlier degrees in physics and chemistry she studied under

André Dupont-Sommer André Dupont-Sommer (23 December 1900, Marnes-la-Coquette – 14 May 1983, Paris) was a French semitologist. He specialized in the history of Judaism around the beginning of the Common Era, and especially the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a graduate of ...

, François Graffin, Antoine Guillaumont and later , becoming the director of research of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Micheline Albert was involved with Michel Tardieu and Alain Le Boulluec in the Laboratoire des Etudes Monothéistes where she directed the Christianismes Orientaux team. Albert worked successively on James of Sarug,

Philoxenus of Mabbug Philoxenus of Mabbug (Syriac: , ') (died 523), also known as Xenaias and Philoxenus of Hierapolis, was one of the most notable Syriac prose writers and a vehement champion of Miaphysitism. Early life He was born, probably in the third quarter of ...

Sophronius of Jerusalem Sophronius ( grc-gre, Σωφρόνιος; ar, صفرونيوس; c. 560 – March 11, 638), called Sophronius the Sophist, was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Ch ...

(with the future Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna),

Dadisho Qatraya Dadisho Qatraya or Dadisho of Qatar (late 7th century) was a Nestorian monk and author of ascetic literature in Syriac. His works were widely read, from Ethiopia to Central Asia. Life Dadisho flourished in the late 7th century. Originally from Beth ...

Joseph Hazzaya Joseph Hazzaya (Syriac: ''Yawsep Ḥazzāyā''; born c. 710×713) was an 8th-century Syriac Christian writer, ascetic and mystic. The nickname Hazzaya means "the seer" or "the visionary". He belonged to the Church of the East.. The main source of ...

and

Barhebraeus Gregory Bar Hebraeus ( syc, ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ, b. 1226 - d. 30 July 1286), known by his Syriac ancestral surname as Bar Ebraya or Bar Ebroyo, and also by a Latinized name Abulpharagius, was an Aramean Maphrian (regional primat ...

, which she regularly presented in Guillaumont's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes seminars. She was married with five children. Selected publications: ''Histoire "Acéphale": et, Index syriaque des Lettres festales d'Athanase d'Alexandrie'', Cerf, 1985 (

Sources Chrétiennes Sources Chrétiennes ( French "Christian sources") is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac. Citations to the series are commonly made by the letter ...

317) ''Christianismes orientaux. Introduction à l'étude des langues et des littératures'', Cerf 1993

References

''Annuaire section des sciences religieuses'', Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Data Bnf France: data bnf.fr./12017363/micheline albert 1925 births 2014 deaths Linguists from France Women linguists {{France-linguist-stub