Martin Jugie

Martin Jugie (baptized as Étienne; 3 May 1878, Paulhiac – 29 November 1954, Lorgues) was a French Catholic priest and scholar.

Biography Jugie was initially educated within the Assumptionist minor seminaries of Le Breuil in Deux-Sèvres between 1891 and 1893 and Clairmarais at Pas-de-Calais between 1893 and 1895, before entering the Assumptionist novitiate at Livry-Gargan on 10 August 1895, taking the religious name, Martin, before making his first vows precisely a year later. In September 1902, Jugie was sent to Kadiköy, where he first provided instruction in Greek between 1902 and 1903, before teaching Dogmatic Theology and Canon Law therein between 1903 and 1904. Following a brief tenure as a director of Kadiköy's Greek alumnate between 1904 and 1905, Jugie returned to providing teaching in Dogmatic Theology through to 1914. Contextually, Kadiköy had quickly established itself as an important centre of scholarship, as exemplified by the fact that, in 1897, the institute founded one of the foremost journals in Oriental studies under the editorship of the future Latin Archbishop of Athens, Louis Petit, the Echos d’Orient, for which Jugie produced numerous articles for throughout his literary career. and his five-volume historical exposition of Eastern Christian theology, the Theologia dogmatica christianorum orientalium. Moreover, alongside Louis Petit and Xenophon A. Sideridès, Jugie produced an eight-volume critical edition of the opera omnia of the fifteenth-century Eastern Orthodox theologian and the first Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople under Ottoman rule, George-Gennadios Scholarios. Jugie also provided instruction at the Pontifical Lateran University and the Institut catholique in Lyons, with his students in the latter including the Assumptionist Patristics scholar, Antoine Wenger.

Having begun to suffer from Parkinson's disease in 1953, Martin retired from teaching. He died on 29 November 1954 in Lorgues and was buried the next day.