Quotes:Montfaucon, Bernard de

Zirkoff, Boris

Montfaucon, Bernard de. French scholar and critic, b. at the Château de Soulage in France, Jan. 13, 1655; d. at St.-Germain-des-Pres, Dec. 21, 1741. Entered the army, 1672, but in 1675 became a monk, and lived at various abbeys, going to Italy, 1698. Apart from editing a number of writings of the Church Fathers, such as Athanasius and John Chrysostom, he wrote a work entitled l'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (1719) which laid the foundation of archaeology. (2nd rev. & enl. ed., Paris: F. Del au Ine, 1722; 5 vols, in 10. French & Latin. Engl, transi, by David Humphreys. London: J. Touson & J. Watts, 1721-22; 5 vols.) His Palaeographia graeca (1708) illustrated the history of Greek writing.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 516