Micheline Albert

Micheline Albert (1925-2014) was a French Syriac scholar. After earlier degrees in Physics and Chemistry she studied under André Dupont-Sommer, François Graffin, Antoine Guillaumont and later François Dolbeau, becoming a member of the French C.N.R.S. Micheline Albert was involved with Michel Tardieu and Alain Le Boulluec in the 'Laboratoire des Etudes Monothéistes' where she directed the 'Christianismes Orientaux' team. Micheline Albert worked successively on James of Sarug, Philoxenos of Mabbug, Sophronius of Jerusalem (with the future Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna), Dadisho Qatraya, Joseph Hazzaya and Barhebraeus,which she regularly presented in Guillaumont's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes seminars. She was married with five children.

Selected publications:

Index syriaque des Lettres Festales d'Athanase d' Alexandrie, Cerf,1985 (Sources Chrétiennes 317)

Christianismes orientaux. Introduction à l'étude des langues et des littératures, Cerf 1993