Raymond-Joseph Loenertz (10 June 1900 – 31 August 1976) was a medievalist from

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

. He entered the

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

and since 1930 worked in the Dominican Historical Institute. His work focused on the history of the Dominican Order and the relations between the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

and the Latin West. He published the letters of the Byzantine theologian

Manuel Kalekas Manuel Kalekas (died 1410) was a monk and theologian of the Byzantine Empire. Kalekas was a disciple of Demetrios Kydones. He lived in Italy, Crete and Lesbos where he translated the works of Boethius and Anselm of Canterbury into Greek, and seve ...

(Vatican City 1950) and of the theologian and statesman

Demetrios Kydones Demetrios Kydones, Latinized as Demetrius Cydones or Demetrius Cydonius ( el, Δημήτριος Κυδώνης; 1324, Thessalonica – 1398, Crete), was a Byzantine Greeks, Greek theologian, translator, author and influential statesman, who s ...

(2 vv., Vatican City 1956-1960) and, with Antonio Garzya, works by

Procopius of Gaza Procopius of Gaza ( 465–528 AD) was a Christians, Christian sophist and rhetorician, one of the most important representatives of the famous Rhetorical School of Gaza, school of his native place.Vikan, Gary, Alexander Kazhdan, and Zvi 'Uri Ma� ...

Works (selection)

* An index for the years 1932–70 can be found in ''Byzantina et Franco–Graeca. Articles parus de 1935 à 1966.'' Réédités avec la collaboration de Peter Schreiner. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1970, pp. XIX–XXIX * ''La Société des Frères Perégrinants.'' Istituto storico domenicano S. Sabina, Rome 1937. * ''Les Recueils de lettres de Démétrius Cydonès.'' Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican 1947. * ''The Apocalypse of Saint John.'' Authorized translation by Hilary J. Carpenter. Sheed & Ward, London 1948. * ''Le Panégyrique de S. Denys l’Aréopagite par S. Michel le Syncelle.'' in: ''Analecta Bollandiana'' 68, 1950, pp. 94–107. * ''Athènes et Néopatras: registres et notices pour servir à l'histoire des duchés catalans (1311-1394)'', Istituto Storico Domenicano, Rome 1955. * ''Demetrius Cydones, Correspondance.'' Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican 1956. * with Antonio Garzya (Ed.): ''Procopii Gazaei Epistolae et Declamationes.'' Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1963 (Studia Patristica et Byzantina, 9). * with Johannes Maria Hoeck: ''Nikolaos-Nektarios von Otranto, Abt von Casole. Beiträge zur Geschichte der ost-westlichen Beziehungen unter Innozenz III. und Friedrich II.'' Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1965 (''Studia patristica et Byzantina'', 11). A monograph of

Nicholas of Otranto Nikolaos of Otranto (ca. 1155/60 in Otranto – February 9, 1235), also known as Nektarios of Casole, was a Greek abbot and author. Nikolaos was probably born around 1155/60. There is no record of where he received his considerable education, but i ...

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Byzantina et Franco–Graeca. Articles parus de 1935 à 1966.
' Réédités avec la collaboration de Peter Schreiner. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1970. * with

Peter Schreiner Peter Richard Schreiner (born 17 November 1965 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German chemist who is a professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen. , his h-index is 73. Career Schreiner studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he rec ...

: ''Les Ghisi. Dynastes venitiens dans l’Archipel, 1207–1390.'' L. S. Olschki, Florence 1975. * ''Byzantina et Franco–Graeca. Series altera. Articles choisis parus de 1936 a 1969.'' Républiés avec la collaboration de Pierre Marie De Contenson, Enrica Follieri et Peter Schreiner. Edizioni di storia e letteratura, Rome 1978. {{DEFAULTSORT:Loenertz, Raymond-Joseph 1900 births 1976 deaths Luxembourgian Byzantinists Dominican scholars 20th-century Luxembourgian historians Scholars of Byzantine history