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Jun 07, 1891 Eguisheim, Grand Est, France Died on 05 Dec 1978 (aged 87)
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About Irénée Hausherr
- Irénée Hausherr (7 June 1881, Eguisheim - 5 December 1978, Colmar) was a Jesuit of Alsatian origin and specialist in Greek patristic and monastic spirituality.
- Ordained priest in 1923 after studies in the Netherlands, he became a professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, where he is claimed to have pioneered the study of the spirituality of the Christian East at an academic level.
- In this he was seconded by the future Cardinal Tomas Spidlik.
- Several of his works take their title from key terms of Desert spirituality, e.g., penthos; and philautia (philautie).
- He published mainly for the Pontifical Oriental Institute, also in Analecta Bollandiana, and Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo.
- He was a specialist in Hesychasm.
