G. G. Meersseman

Gilles Gérard Meersseman OP (19 April 1903 in Torhout – 26 March 1988 in Fribourg) was a Belgian theologian and Catholic Church historian.

Biography In 1922 he was accepted into the Dominican Order (Belgium province), and changed his name to Gilles-Marie.

He was ordained a priest in 1927.

From 1936 to 1951, he was a member of the Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers (Institutum Historicum Ordinis Praedicatorum).

From 1951 to 1967 he taught as a full professor of church history at the University of Freiburg Faculty of Theology

He was a dean of the Faculty of Theology from 1956 to 1958.

Works Introductio in opera omnia B. Alberti Magni O.P., Bruges, 1931. Laurentii Pignon Catalogi accedunt Catalogi Stamsensis et Upsalensis Scriptorum O.P., Rome, 1936. Rembert van Torhout. Heiligen van onzen stam., Bruges, 1943. Dossier de l’Ordre de la pénitence au XIIIe siècle., Fribourg, 1982. Ordo fraternitatis. Confraternite e pietà dei laici nel Medioevo, (Vol. 1-3), Rome, 1977.