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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Mamertus, Saint, Bishop of Vienne
• Avitus, Alcimus Ecdicius, Archbishop of Vienne
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Grenoble-Vienne, France, Diocese of
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Council of Vienne
• Haute-Vienne
• Vienne River
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Vienne, Councils of (Concilium Apud Viennam Alobrogum, or Viennense)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Vienne
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Council of Vienne (1311-12)
• St. Ado of Vienne
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Tobiah ben Elijah of Vienne (Burgundy)
• Vienne

Town in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. Jews dwelt there as early as the tenth century (Gross, "Gallia Judaica," p. 191). They lived in a special quarter, still (1905) called "the Jewry," and in the thirteenth century had a beautiful synagogue (Carmoly, "Itinéraires," p. 187).

The following were the most noted scholars of Vienne: the tosafist Tobiah ben Elijah, author of a commentary on the Pentateuch and of liturgical poems (Zunz, "Z. G." pp. 56, 97; idem, "Literaturgeschichte," p. 303); Abraham ben Ephraim, a pupil of Tobiah and author of a work on casuistics; Yaḳar of Vienne, called also "Yaḳar ben Moses" of Burgundy (Vienne was for a time the capital of Burgundy), who composed poseḳim (legal decisions), fragments of which are still extant (Gross, c. p. 193).