LANGLOIS, VICTOR., 1829-69; b. France; traveled in Asia Minor and Armenia, in Western Asia, in 1852-53, making excavations and collecting ancient coins, medals, and inscriptions. At Tarsus, in Calm, the birthplace of St. Paul, of the stoid Antipater, and the philosopher Athenodorus, anciently the seat of a celebrated school of philoso phy, he found in the cemetery some figures in terra-cotta, which were afterwards 'exhibited in Paris. He was happy in his discoveries of Greek inscriptions, which num bered over 80. He published, iu 1858, Numismatique de l'Armenie. Previous to 1861 he went to Italy, adding to his investigations in relation to Armenia in the time of the crusade, a collection of datafor an important work on the doctrines of the Mechitarists, the most celebrated of the Armenian monks; visiting San Lazar°, an Armenian con vent, a center of Armenian literature, on an island near the city of Venice. The work
appeared in 1862. In 1867 he published Le Mont Athos et ses 3fonasteres, with a litho graphic copy of the Greek manuscript of the geography of Ptolemy, 17th c., which he found in the libraries of the monasteries of Mt. Athos, In Turkey, the seat of the first and most celebrated theological seminary of the Greek church. It is the Monte Santo of to-day, where upwards of 6,000 monks and hermits living in monasteries, grottoes, and caves, in complete seclusion from the world, religiously preserve time ancient MSS. that they were formerly occupied in transcribing. As the result of his researches among these treasures of Greek literature, the first volume of his Collection des liistoriens Anciens et .Afodernes de r Ar me nie, a translation from the Armenian, was produced in 1868; its completion was prevented by his death.