Timeline
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Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C., founds Notre Dame.
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Fr. Philip S. Moore begins a program of medieval studies, assisted by the Sorbonne, offering graduate courses for the first time.
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Father Moore, now dean of the Graduate School, formally founds the Medieval Institute.
Photo (from left to right): Reverend Joseph N. Garvin, C.S.C., first Assistant Director; Reverend Philip S. Moore, C.S.C., founder; Reverend Gerald B. Phelan, First Director
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Microfilming of the Ambrosiana collection begins.
Photo (from left to right): Monsignor Angelo Paredi, Professor Astrik Gabriel, Monsignor Ernesto Moneta Caglio.
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The Hesburgh Library
The Medieval Institute moves to the new Hesburgh Library (then Memorial Library); Father Theodore Hesburgh gives the Institute an entire floor. The director, Canon Gabriel, chooses the seventh floor, as seven is the number of perfection.
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Notre Dame purchases the personal collection of Milton V. Anastos, a renowned Professor of Classics and Byzantine Studies at UCLA; this collection is housed in the Medieval Institute's Starvros Niarchos Byzantine and Classics Reading Room (room no. 714), inaugurated in 2012.
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Medieval Institute Director Remie Constable donates room 714B to house the new Near Eastern Studies Collection.
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The Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary, 1946–2021.