Joseph Van den Gheyn

Joseph Marie Martin Van den Gheyn (1854–1913) was a Belgian Jesuit, Bollandist and chief conservator of the Royal Library of Belgium.

He was educated at St Barbara's College in Ghent and entered the Jesuit noviciate in Drongen on 27 September 1871.

[1] He developed a wide range of intellectual interests and published articles in numerous fields relating to language and culture.

[3] Joseph was assigned to the Bollandists in 1888, to research Greek and Eastern saints, and taught a course on Sanskrit at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

He was involved in organising the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges, and published editions of several medieval illuminated manuscripts, including Le Bréviaire de Philippe le Bon (1909), Jean le Tavernier's Cronicques et conquestes de Charlemaine (1909), Loyset Liédet's Histoire de Charles Martel (1910), and two books of hours attributed to Jacques Coene (1911).