Andrea Schmidt

Professor of Near Eastern Christian Studies, Oriental Institute at Université catholique de Louvain

Areas of expertise

- - Syriac and Armenian manuscripts
- - Ancient and Medieval Christianity in the Caucasus and Near East: languages, literatures, history

Major works

A. Schmidt, Kanon der Entschlafenen. Das Begräbnisrituale der Armenier nach den ältesten Handschriften herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert (Orientalia Biblica et Christiana, 5), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1994
G. PRINZING – A. SCHMIDT, Das Lemberger Evangeliar. Eine wiederentdeckte armenische Bilderhandschrift des 12. Jahrhunderts, (SKCO, 2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1997
A. Schmidt, Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni opera. Versio Syriaca, II. Orationes XIII et XLI, (Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca, 47. Corpus Nazianzenum,15), Turnhout – Leuven: Brepols 2002
E. Van Donzel - A. Schmidt, Gog and Magog in Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources. Sallam’s quest for Alexander’s Wall, (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 22), Leiden: Brill 2010
J. Den Heijer – A. Schmidt – T. Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders. A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World, (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 62), Leuven: Peeters 2013
Schmidt, Manuscrits arméniens de la chronique du Michel le Syrien dans le fond patriarcal à Jérusalem, in : C. MUTAFIAN – G. DÉDÉYAN (eds.), La Méditerranée des Arméniens (XI-XVe siècles), Paris : Editions Geuthner 2014, p. 179-190

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About me

Andrea Schmidt is Professor of Near Eastern Christian Studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. She has specialized in Syriac, Armenian and Georgian studies. Her main interests are the religious and literary transmissions between the Syriac Semitic world of Christianity and the Christian civilisations in the Caucasus. She was appointed to the Francqui Chair at the University of Leuven (2008). She is member of the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen (Germany) and member of the Patristic Kommission of the German Academies of Sciences at Mayence (Germany). She is editor of the series “Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium” (Peeters Publishers, Leuven).