# Sergius Gamerius

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'''Sergius Gamerius''' (or Sarkis al-Gamri; 1610 in [Ehden](/source/Ehden), [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon) – 1668 in [Marseille](/source/Marseille), [France](/source/France)) was an Arabist and [Maronite](/source/Maronite) bishop.

==Life==

After study (from 1625) and be ordained a priest in [Rome](/source/Rome), and after a visit to [Nicolas Peiresc](/source/Nicolas-Claude_Fabri_de_Peiresc) in 1635 in [Aix-en-Provence](/source/Aix-en-Provence), he asked before his return to Lebanon in January 1642 to [Cardinal Richelieu](/source/Cardinal_Richelieu) to buy Greek and Oriental manuscripts for him in the Orient. Apparently, in vain, because he was suspected by [Englishmen](/source/Englishmen) and [Dutchmen](/source/Dutchmen) due to still rare oriental [sort](/source/Sort_(typesetting)) for sale. 

Between 1648 and 1656 he worked, beside his nephew and successor Gabriel Sionita, as professor of Arabic at the [Collège de France](/source/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_France). On 25 January 1658 Gamerius became the Maronite Archbishop of the [Damascus](/source/Maronite_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Damascus) and more later of [Cyprus](/source/Maronite_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Cyprus) but stayed from 1659 in Paris<ref>[a letter of 3 April 1660 Sergius, "Archbishop of Damascus", in Paris handed down the Cod. Paris. SYR 331st; cf. F. Nau:. Notices of manuscrits syriaques. In: Revue de l'Orient Chrétien 16 (1911) 292nd]</ref> and in 1662 temporarily in [Turin](/source/Turin). He died in 1668 after a stay of unknown duration in Marseille.

==Literature==

* [Nasser Gemayel](/source/Nasser_Gemayel): Rôle the Maronites dans l'acquisition of manuscrits orientaux et dans la rédaction de leur cataloguqe en France. In: Exposition Le livre et le Liban jusqu'à 1900, Paris, 1962, 213-217, esp. 213th 216th.
* [Nasser Gemayel](/source/Nasser_Gemayel): Les échanges entre les culturels Maronites et l'Europe. Vol. 1. Beyrouth 1984, 103. 243. 245-48. 252. 287f. 298.

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