Paul Grosjean

Paul Grosjean, SJ (26 May 1900 – 13 June 1964) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, Bollandist, and Celtic scholar.

Born in Uccle, Grosjean studied at St Michael College, Brussels before becoming a Jesuit novice in 1917. He was selected by Hippolyte Delehaye to become a Bollandist, studied at the University of Oxford, returned to Belgium for his military service, then studied in Dublin. Ordained a priest in 1932, he returned to St Michael College, where he spent the remainder of his career, preparing a number of biographies of Celtic saints. He mastered Celtic and Latin, in addition to several modern languages.

He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1950.^[1]