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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

"Mar Awgen is the traditional founder of monasticism in Mesopotamia."1 In hagiography: Awgin (Eugene) was the father of the monks of Mesopotamia who came from Egypt in the fourth century with a group of disciples, including Aha and John, that established monasteries in Mesopotamia.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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    • 1 E. G. Mathews, Jr, Awgen, Mar, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 48. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 169. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 147. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 168. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero 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