Awgin - ܡܪܝ ܐܘܓܝܢ

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Mar Awgen is the traditional founder of monasticism in Mesopotamia.1

Names

  • ܡܪܝ ܐܘܓܝܢ
  • Awgin
  • ܐܘܓܝܢ6
  • ܐܘܓܝܢ ܐܝܓܘܦܛܝ4
  • ܐܰܘܓܺܝܢ ܐܺܝܓܘܽܦܛܳܝ4
  • اوجين القبطي3
  • Awgēn
  • AWGIN (EUGÈNE)7
  • Eugène6
  • Eugène (Awgen)6
  • Mar Awgen5
  • Awgen, Mar1
  • Eugene the Copt2
  • Eugene, Mar
  • ʾAwgēn6

Floruit

4th - early 5th cent.1 or 300-4007

Notes

See Budge for a list of his disciples (of which some of them, like John bar Kaldūn, were made in the tenth century).10
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Works Cited

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  • 1 E. G. Mathews, JrAwgen, MarThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 48., p: 48.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 169.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 147.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 168.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Mar Awgen.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1585, 1586, 87, 1336, 89, 1044, 1585, 1586, 87, 1336, 89, 1044.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 60.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 AMSvol: III, p: 376-480., vol: III, p: 376-480.
  • 9 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., entry: 120-23.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 10 BudgeGovernorsvol: I, part: cxxx-cxxxi., vol: I, part: cxxx-cxxxi.
  • 11 A. van RoeyDHGEvol: XV, col: col. 1359-60, entry: s.v. Eugene., vol: XV, col: col. 1359-60, entry: s.v. Eugene.
  • 12 J.M. FieyAones, Awua et Awgia (Eugene)p: 52-81., p: 52-81.
  • 13 FieyJalonsp: 100-11., p: 100-11.
  • 14 FieyNisibep: 134-41, 194-204., p: 134-41, 194-204.
  • 15 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 325-26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 16 N. Sims-WilliamsEugeniusEncyclopaedia Iranicavol: IX, p: 64., vol: IX, p: 64.
  • 17 Aux sources du monachisme oriental: Abraham de Kashkar et le développement de la légende de Mar AwginRevue de l’histoire des religions
  • 18 Tales about Sennacherib: The Contribution of the Syriac SourcesThe world of the Aramaeans. III. III.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
  • 19 Dādišo‘ Qatrāyā’s Commentary on the Paradise of the FathersAnalecta Bollandiana
  • 20 Polishing the Mirror: Some Thoughts on Syriac Sources and Early JudaismEnvisioning Judaism: studies in honor of Peter Schäfer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
  • 21 Ein soghdisches Fragment der Mār Eugen-LegendeSplitter aus der Gegend von Turfan. Festschrift für Peter Zieme anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstags

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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