Gilles Gérard Meersseman

Gilles Gérard Meersseman OP (19 April 1903 in Torhout – 26 March 1988 in Fribourg) was a Belgian theologian and Catholic Church historian.

Biography

In 1922 he was accepted into the Dominican Order (Belgium province), and changed his name to Gilles-Marie.

He was ordained a priest in 1927.

From 1936 to 1951, he was a member of the Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers (Institutum Historicum Ordinis Praedicatorum).

From 1951 to 1967 he taught as a full professor of church history at the University of Freiburg Faculty of Theology

He was a dean of the Faculty of Theology from 1956 to 1958.

Works

  • Introductio in opera omnia B. Alberti Magni O.P., Bruges, 1931, OCLC 2387513.
  • Laurentii Pignon Catalogi accedunt Catalogi Stamsensis et Upsalensis Scriptorum O.P., Rome, 1936, OCLC 878889216.
  • Rembert van Torhout. Heiligen van onzen stam., Bruges, 1943, OCLC 781586907.
  • Dossier de l’Ordre de la pénitence au XIIIe siècle., Fribourg, 1982, ISBN 2-8271-0144-X {{isbn}}: ignored ISBN errors (link).
  • Ordo fraternitatis. Confraternite e pietà dei laici nel Medioevo, (Vol. 1-3), Rome, 1977.

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