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Paul Pisani (1852–1933)(in French) Francesco Beretta. ''Monseigneur d'Hulst et la science chrétienne: portrait d'un intellectuel''. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1996, p. 14, fn. 2. was a Franciscan friar and historian from France.


Family background

Pisani's ancestors of French-Italian origin settled at the Levant at the end of the 18th century. They served French and Russian embassies in Constantinople. Pisani was therefore fluent in
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and Italian and also had some knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.


Career

Pisani was ordained a priest in 1878 and received his D.Litt. in 1893. He was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1888 to 1889 and from 1908 to 1922. He was a close friend of Monseigneur
Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst. Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst (born at Paris, 10 October 1841; died there, 6 November 1896) was a French Roman Catholic priest, writer, and orator. He was the founder of the Institut Catholique de Paris. ...
, founder of the Institut Catholique, and was his secretary from 1884 to 1888.


Selected works

* ''Les journaux français dans les Provinces Illyriennes pendant l'époque impériale'' - Paris 1887 * ''La Légende de Skanderbeg'' - 1891 * ''Num Ragusini ab omni iure Veneto a sæc. x usque ad sæac. xiv immunes fuerint'' - 1893 * ''La Dalmatie de 1797 à 1815'' - 1893 * ''Études d'histoire religieuse: A travers l'Orient'' - 1987 * ''Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802)'' - 1907 * ''Les Missions protestantes à la fin du XIXe siècle'' - 1908 * ''L'église de Paris et la revolution'' - 1911 * ''Les compagnies de prêtres du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle'' - 1928 Pisani emphasized in his works that pretended racial unity of the population of the
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was partially imagingary. He was a friend of Tullio Erber whose interpretation of some events was, according to Pisani, influenced by the Austrian government that was employer of Erber.


References


Further reading

* - about other members of Pisani family and their diplomatic career in Constantinople


External links

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