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Professor of Syriac at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, from 1969
to 1974. Born in Lier in 1903, Ceslas (Florent) Van den Eynde entered the
Dominican Order in 1922 and was ordained a priest in 1928. His doctoral
dissertation, submitted at the Oriental Institute of the University of
Louvain and published in 1939, dealt with the Syriac version of the
commentary on the Song of Songs by
In addition to his teaching and other obligations at the Dominican Seminary
in Louvain, Van den Eynde worked on the edition and translation of the
9th-cent. OT commentaries of