Paul Pisani Explained

Paul Pisani
Birth Date:1852
Death Date:1933
Nationality:French
Occupation:a Franciscan friar and historian

Paul Pisani (1852–1933)[1] was a Franciscan friar and historian from France.

Family background

Pisani's ancestors of French-Italian origin settled at the Levant at the end of the 18th century. They served French and Russian embassies in Constantinople. Pisani was therefore fluent in French and Italian and also had some knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.[2]

Career

Pisani was ordained a priest in 1878 and received his D.Litt. in 1893.[1] He was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris[3] from 1888 to 1889 and from 1908 to 1922. He was a close friend of Monseigneur Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst, founder of the Institut Catholique, and was his secretary from 1884 to 1888.[1]

Selected works

Pisani emphasized in his works that pretended racial unity of the population of the Illyrian Provinces was partially imagingary.[4] He was a friend of Tullio Erber whose interpretation of some events was, according to Pisani, influenced by the Austrian government that was employer of Erber.[2]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. (in French) Francesco Beretta. Monseigneur d'Hulst et la science chrétienne: portrait d'un intellectuel. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1996, p. 14, fn. 2.
  2. Book: Harriet Bjelovučić. The Ragusan Republic: Victim of Napoleon and Its Own Conservatism. 4 January 2014. 1970. Brill Archive. 164. GGKEY:1ERFSC27Z6S.
  3. Book: Actes. 1890. U.S. National Committee of the International Geographical Union, National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council. 22 July 2011. 495. French. Paul Pisani, Professeur à l'Institut Catholique de Paris.
  4. Book: Mary Eloise Bradshaw. The Napoleonic Influence on the Illyrian Provinces. 4 January 2014. 1928. University of Wisconsin--Madison. introduction. ...racially, with Albe Paul Pisani, when he says that the pretended unity of the Illyrian Provinces was partly imaginary..