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Apr 10, 1903 Died on 08 Apr 1979 (aged 75)
French art historian
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About Jules Leroy
- Jules Leroy (Ablis, 1903 – Chaptal, 1979), French priest and researcher in the domains of Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopian manuscripts, art and architecture. As a novice he joined the French Benedictine congregation of Solesmes in their exile at Isle of Wight.
- From 1930 to 1933 Leroy studied at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome. Leroy's early researches in iconography of Pre-Chalcedonian Christian Churches were guided by Henri Seyrig in the Lebanon and by the historian of art, André Grabar.
- A researcher in the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Leroy was attached to the Institut d' Etudes et de Recherches d' Ethiopie in Addis Abeba. Sources René-Georges Coquin, Necrologie, Syria, Vol.
- 57 (1980), p.
- 502-503. Palmer, A.N.
- and Ginkel,J, 'Leroy, Jules' in Dictionary of Art 19 (1996), p.
- 231-232.Selected Publications Les Manuscrits Syriaques à peinture conservés dans les Bibliothèques d'Europe et d' Orient.
- Contribution à l' étude et à l' iconographie des églises de langue syriaque, Geuthner, 1964. Ethiopie, archéologie et culture, Desclée de Brouwer, 1973.
