Ursmer Berliere
- Category : 1861-births
- Type : PE
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Migration 2
Biography
Belgian monk of Maredsous Abbey and a monastic historian whose bibliography ran to 360 publications. In 1890 he launched the Monasticon belge, a prosopography of pre-1801 Belgian monasticism that would eventually run to 23 volumes, with publication completed in 1993. From 1902 to 1906 he was director of the Institut historique belge in Rome, and from 1912 to 1914 chief curator of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. In 1931 a Festschrift was published in his honour under the title Hommage à dom Berlière. He died in Maredsous on 27 August 1932.