Paul Mouterde


Paul Mouterde was a French Jesuit missionary and naturalist, and the director of the Oriental Library at the Saint [Joseph University] of Beirut.
He published two previously unknown homilies of fifth-century Syriac poet-theologian Jacob of Serugh, and multiple works on Levantine flora, including a three-volume work on the flora of Lebanon and Syria.

Early life

Paul Mouterde was born in 1862 in Bruyères, in the French Department of Vosges. His father was Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Lyon.

Selected works