Vaschalde, Arthur Adolphe, C.S.B. (1871– 1942)
Vaschalde’s Syriac career flourished at The Catholic University of America
(CUA) where he received a Ph.D. in 1901. His dissertation, an edition,
translation, and study of three letters of
Philoxenos
of Mabbug
, was published in 1902. Vaschalde taught Syriac and
Coptic at CUA from 1910 to 1939. His work on the Coptic versions of the
Bible remains an important resource for scholars today. In 1930 he became
the editor for the Coptic section of the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum
Orientalium (CSCO). Most of his Syriac publications appear in this series,
including editions and translations of writings of Philoxenos of Mabbug,
Babai the Great
,
Yaʿqub of
Edessa
, and
Dionysios
bar Ṣalibi
.
Select publications by Vaschalde
-
Three Letters of Philoxenus Bishop of Mabbogh
(485–519) (1902).
-
Philoxeni Mabbugensis Tractatus Tres de
Trinitate et Incarnatione (CSCO 9–10; 1907).
-
Babai Magni Liber de Unione (CSCO
79–80; 1915).
-
Jacobi Edesseni Hexaemeron seu in Opus
Creationis Libri Septem (CSCO 97; 1932).
-
Dionysii bar Salibi, Commentarii in Evangelia,
Pars Secunda (CSCO 95, 98, 113–4; 1931–3,
1939–40).
Secondary Sources
- S. Griffith and M. Blanchard, ‘Henri Hyvernat (1858–1941) and
the Beginning of Syriac Studies at The Catholic University of
America’, ARAM 5 (1993), 181–96.
- R. J. Scollard, ‘Vaschalde, Reverend Arthur Adolphe’, in The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers
(1917), 177.
-
R. J. Scollard, ‘Adolphe A. Vaschalde — Priest and Scholar’, The Catholic University Bulletin 9.4 (May
1942), 4, 12.
-
R. J. Scollard, ‘Vaschalde, Arthur Adolphe’, in New
Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) vol. 14, 541–2.
-
R. J. Scollard, Dictionary of Basilian Biography: Lives
of Members of the Congregation of Priests of Saint Basil from
Its Beginnings in 1822 to 1968 (Toronto: Basilian Press,
1969), 161–63.
Monica J.
Blanchard