Maturin Veyssière La Croze

Maturin Veyssière La Croze
Mathurin Veyssière de La Croze (copy after Antoine Pesne)

Maturinus Veyssière La Croze (Nantes, 1661–1739) was a learned French Benedictine historian and orientalist,[1] later a Protestant convert. He became a Prussian royal librarian.

His works include Vindiciae veterum scriptorum contra J. Hardunium' (1708), the Histoire du christianisme des Indes (1724), Histoire du Christianisme d'Ethiopie et d'Arménie (1739)[2], and a Coptic-Latin dictionary[3].

Notes

  1. ^ For La Croze's important role in the European discovery of Buddhism see Urs App. The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4) (pp. 106–132).
  2. ^ CRDA - II - Arménologie aux Pays-Bas
  3. ^ A list of Coptic manuscript materials in the Papyrological Institute Leiden and in the Library of the University of Leiden

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