Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus

Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus (Greek: Αθανάσιος Παπαδόπουλος-Κεραμεύς; 1856–1912) an Ottoman and subsequently Tsarist subject, Greek Orthodox in religious affiliation, was an Ottoman Greek scholar.

Appointed secretary of the Greek Literary Club of Constantinople (1881) he was made responsible (1883) for creating an inventory of Greek manuscripts belonging to schools, churches and monasteries. In 1887 he was summoned to Jerusalem to collect and catalogue all manuscripts in Palestine. The Russian Imperial Orthodox Society for Palestine charged him with the task of editing unpublished texts. In 1892 he became a private lecturer (Privatdozent) in Modern Greek and Byzantine History at St. Petersburg University. He was subsequently director of the theological section of the St. Petersburg Imperial Library.

Principal publications

• Hierosolymitike Bibliotheke, (catalogue of the Jerusalem patriarchal libraries) vol.1, St. Petersburg, 1891
• Analekta Hierosolymitikes Stachyologias (edition of mainly unpublished Greek texts), 5 vols.,1891; anastatic impression, Brussels, 1963

Sources

• B. Joassart, Analecta Bollandiana, Tome 128, Brussels, 2010