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

External links

• Georgios Fatouros (1997). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Maturin Veyssière La Croze. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 12. Herzberg. cols. 1314–1315. ISBN 3-88309-068-9. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/v/veyssiere_m.shtml. 

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Name	La Croze, Maturin Veyssiere
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Date of birth	1661
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Date of death	1739
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