Surgeon, classicist, linguist, archaeologist, liturgist, and all-round scholar, Pierre Barbet applied a full, rich lifetime of thought, experience, and study to the problem of Christ's sufferings and death. Born in 1883, Dr. Barbet took his medical training in Paris. He served as surgeon in several hospitals while also giving instruction in anatomy. He served four years as surgeon in the French army during World War I. Deeply interested in the literature of other countries, he was especially competent in Greek and Latin, which proved highly useful in his study of Christ's sufferings, and he published translations of Dante, Michelangelo, and Jacopone da Todi from Italian. He had an absorbing interest in Christian archaeology and amassed a large library on the history of art.