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HYVERNAT
An Caisled,n Riabhach, Co. Roscommon, Ireland,
1860. Education: private; Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor of modern literature, State University,
New Brunswick, 1893; former examiner in Celtic,
Royal University of Ireland; at present, professor of
modern Irish, senator and dean of the Irish Faculty,
National University of Ireland. First president
National Literary Society; presented with the
freedom of the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and
Kilkenny, Ireland; member of the Fry Royal Com-
mission for inquiring into Irish University education.
President of: the Gaelic League since its foundation,
1893; Irish Texts Society; hon. member: College
Historical Society; Caledonian Medical Society.
Author of: "Literary History of Ireland" (1899);
"Poems of Raftery" (1904); "Religious Songs
of Connacht" (1906); "Legends of Saints and
Sinners" (1915); about thirty other books: plays,
collections of folk-lore, folk songs, editions of Irish
texts, histories of Irish literature, poems; assistant
editor "New Irish Library"; collaborator in "Dic-
tionary of Religion"; contributor to: "Revue
celtique"; "Zeitschrift fiir keltische Philologie";
"Eriu"; "Leabhar na Gaedhilge"; "Celtic Review".
ARTICLES: Bkehon Laws, The; Four Masters, Annals op
the; Ireland: Irish Literature; O'Carolan, Torloqh;
O'CoNOR, Charles; O'Curry, Eugene; O'Daly, Donogh M6r;
O'DuQAN, John.
Hyvemat, Vert Reverend EuoiiNE Xavier Louis Henri, litt.B., d.d., orientahst, b. at S. Julien-en-Jarrgt, Loire, France, 30 June, 1858, son of Claude Hyvernat, former editor of "Gazette de Lyon", and Lgonide Meyrieux. Education: St.
John's Preparatory Seminary and University of
France, Lyons; Seminaries of St. Sulpice, Issy and
Paris. Ordained 1882; chaplain. Church of St. Louis
of the French, Rome, 1882-1885; interpreter of
Oriental languages, Propaganda, Rome, 188.5-1889;
professor of Assyrology and Egyptology, Roman
Seminary, 1885-1888; in Armenia on a scientific
mission for the French Government 1888-1889;
chief of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian
Literatures (at present, professor of Oriental lan-
guages and archaeology), Cathohc University, Wash-
ington, D. C, 1889- . Member of: Pontifical
Roman Academy of the Nuovi Lincei; Academy of
the Catholic Religion (Rome); Pontifical Roman
Academy of Archaeology; American Oriental Society;
Society for Biblical Studies (Rome); A.siatic Society
(Paris); Asiatic Society (Florence); Vorderasiatische
GeseUschaft; Text and Translation Society. Author
of: "Les Actes des Martyrs d'Egypte" (Paris,
1886); "Album de PaMographie Copte" (Paris,
1888); "Du Caucase au Golfe Persique (in collabo-
ration with Paul MuUer-Simonis) (Washington, 1892) ;
compiled "Acta Martyrum", Coptic text and Latin
translation (in collaboration with Giuseppe Balestri)
(Paris, 1907-1908); editor of "Scriptores Coptici",
"Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium";
consulting editor, "Jewish Encyclopedia"; collabora-
tor in: Vigouroux, " Dictionnaire de la Bible";
"Jewish Encyclopedia"; contributor to American,
German, and French Reviews.
ARTICLES: Coptic Literature; Egypt; Elish^; Eznik; James of Sarugh; John of Ephesus; John op Malalas; John OF NiKrt; Pebsecutions, Coptic; Vebsions of the Bible, Coptic.
