Paul Mouterde (1892â 14 January 1972) was a French Jesuit missionary and naturalist, and the director of the Oriental Library at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.
He published two previously unknown homilies of fifth-century Syriac poet-theologian Jacob of Serugh, and multiple works on Levantine flora, including a three-volume work on the flora of Lebanon and Syria.
Paul Mouterde was born in 1862 in Bruyères, in the French Department of Vosges. His father was Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Lyon.