HYVERNAT, EUGENE XAVIER LOUIS: French Roman Catholic; b. at St. Julien-en-Jarrf (7 m. n.e. of St. Etienne), Loire, June 30, 1858. He was educated at the Petit Séminaire de St. Jean, Lyons (bachellier & lettres, University of Lyons, 1876), Séminaire de St. Sulpioe, Issy (1877-79), and Séminaire de St. Sulpice, Paris (1879-82): He was then chaplain of San Luigi de' Franceei, Rome, in 1882-1885, and interpreter of Oriental languages for the Propaganda, Rome, in 188"9, as well as professor of Assyriology and Egyptology in the Pontificio Seminario Romano, Rome, in 1885-88. In 1888-89 he was in Armenia as chief of a scientific mission of the French government. Since 1889 he has been chief of the department of Semitic and Egyptian literatures in the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. Besides his work as editor of the Coptic portion of the Corpus Scriptorum ChrWianorum Orientalitsm, he has written Los Ades des martyrs de 1'Egypte tins do# manuscrits ooptea do la btWiothaqua roaticans d du muses Bor*, i. (Paris, 1887);. Album de psUographie arpte pourr servir d l'intmdts;tion paUOgmphiqne des aetea des martyrs de i'Egypte (1888); and Du Caucase au goVe peraique, a travera d'Armirue, Is Kurdistan.d la He'sopoaamis (in collaboration with P. Müller,Silonis, 1892).

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