- Paul Bedjan
Paul Bedjan (
27 November 1838 , Khosrova,Persia –9 June 1920 ,Cologne ,Germany ) was apriest of theChaldean Catholic Church and anorientalist .The son of a Chaldean Catholic family, Bedjan was enrolled a pupil at the French
Lazarist School in Khosrova in 1846. On27 October 1856 , at the age of eighteen, he became a Lazarist novice inParis . On25 May 1861 , Bedjan was ordained priest there, and, after a few months, returned to Persia, taking a smallreed organ andprinting press with him. Until 1880, he worked as a pastor and organist in his home town, and inUrmia . He then returned to France to raise funds for the printing ofliturgical andtheological works inSyriac . From 1885 to 1900, he was active inAns ,Liège ,Belgium . He was then appointed pastor to theDaughters of Charity at the Vinzenz-Hospital in the northern Cologne suburb of Nippes, a role that he carried out, alongside his editorial work, until his death. He refused repeated calls that he be made the ChaldeanBishop of Salamas.Of his works, his seven edited volumes of Syriac lives of saints and martyrs ("Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum") and five volumes of verse-homilies of
Jacob of Serugh ("Homiliae selectae Mar Iacobi Sarugensis") are the most significant. He was able to complete aNeo-Aramaic Bible translation shortly before the end of his life.Major works
* Breviarium Chaldaicum, 3 volumes of ~3000 pages (1886–1887), photomechanischer Nachdruck: Rom 1938.
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* Histoire de Mar Jab-Alaha, Patriarche (1888, 2nd ed 1995; reprint Gorgias, 2007).
* Nomocanon Gregorii Barhebraei (1898).
* Ethicon, seu Moralia Gregorii Barhebraei (1898).
* Homiliae selectae Mar Iacobi Sarugensis, 5 volumes (1905–1910).
* Nestorius, Le livre d'Héraclide de Damas (1910).
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