Paul Diverres

The doctor Paul Diverres (1880 - 1946) was a university researcher on the Celtic Matter (has " celtic scholar" , in English) and old a Preserving of the manuscripts to the National library of Wales.

Studies of Medicine

It was born with Lorient, Brittany, in 1880, and made its studies at the university of Rennes where it was registered in medical college.

Celtic studies

Then it decided to change matter and it put to follow Celtic studies to the Collège de France and in Sorbonne like at the Practical École of the High Studies, Paris. At the beginning of the 20th century it was one of the founders of the College bardic of Gaules. It went on a journey to the Wales in 1911.

Conservative of the manuscripts of the National library of Wales

In 1914 it received its diploma of Master off Arts (MY dismantles) at the university of Liverpool. It was then named Conservateur of the Manuscrits of the National library of Wales in 1919. In 1923 it accepted a station at the department of French language of the university of Abertawe (Swansea). It made publish a certain number of work among which most important is the oldest text of Meddygon Myddveu published by Maurice Dault, a editor-bookseller Breton near to Gorsedd of the Druide S Bretons, with Paris in 1913), and the Head office of Lorient by the English in 1746 (Rennes, 1931).

Meddygon Myddveu is one of most famous the treaties of the Welsh Médecine of the Moyen-âge and of Paul Diverres is a work as much on the old Médecine as a book of Linguistique Celtique Welsh E works it.

Musician and harpist

At the beginning of the 20th century it came several times in Armorican Brittany to give concerts of Harpe from which it had learned the practice with the Wales.

It bequeathed its library and all its papers (including those which came to him from his/her father Henry Diverres) to the National library of Wales.

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