Antoine Guillaumont

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rdf:langString Antoine Guillaumont (13 January 1915, L'Arbresle – 25 August 2000) was a French archaeologist and Syriac scholar. He held positions notably at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His archaeological writings are related to the site of Kellia in Lower Egypt. As a Syriacist he was most interested in early monasticism and in the reception of the writings of Evagrius Ponticus. From 1954 to 1971, Guillaumont was the editor-in-chief of the academic quarterly Revue de l'histoire des religions, edited by the Collège de France since 1880. During the 1980s. he was also the President of the Ernest Renan Society which was the francophone branch of The International Association for the History of Religions