Paul Mouterde (1892– 14 January 1972) was a French

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missionary and naturalist, and the director of the Oriental Library at the

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of Beirut. He published two previously unknown

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of fifth-century

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poet-

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Jacob of Serugh Jacob of Sarug ( syr, ܝܥܩܘܒ ܣܪܘܓܝܐ, ''Yaʿquḇ Sruḡāyâ'', ; his toponym is also spelled ''Serug'' or ''Serugh''; la, Iacobus Sarugiensis; 451 – 29 November 521), also called Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theo ...

, and multiple works on Levantine flora, including a three-volume work on the

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and Syria.

Early life

Paul Mouterde was born in 1862 in

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, in the French Department of

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. His father was Professor of Law at the

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Selected works

* ''Petite flore des environs de Beyrouth'' (1935) * ''La Flore du Djebel Druze'' (1953) * ''Deux homélies inédites de Jacques de Saroug'' (1944) * ''Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie'' (1966–1978)

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