Paul Mouterde

Paul Mouterde (1892– 14 January 1972) was a French Jesuit missionary and naturalist,^[1] and the director of the Oriental Library at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.^[2]

He published two previously unknown homilies of fifth-century Syriac poet-theologian Jacob of Serugh,^[3] and multiple works on Levantine flora, including a three-volume work on the flora of Lebanon and Syria.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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.^[7]

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Mouterde, Paul (1944). "Deux homélies inédites de Jacques de Saroug". Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph. 26 (1): 1–36. doi:10.3406/mefao.1944.1354.
Mouterde, Paul (1966a). Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie (in French). Vol. 1. Beirut: Editions de l'Imprimerie Catholique.
Mouterde, Paul (1966b) [1966]. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie (in French). Vol. 2. Beirut: Editions de l'Imprimerie Catholique. ISBN 9782721458070.
Mouterde, Paul (1978). Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie (in French). Vol. 3. Éditions de l'Imprimerie Catholique. ISBN 9782721458063.
Mouterde, Paul (1935). Petite flore des environs de Beyrouth. Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique.
Mouterde, Paul (1953). La Flore du Djebel Druze. Beirut: P. Lechevalier - Imprimerue Catholique.
E, R (April 1971). "Nécrologie - Regis Mouterde" (PDF). Bulletin mensuel de la Société Linnéénne de Lyon (4). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 December 2022.