Van Zeller, Dom Hubert: - Born in British-controlled Egypt, Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) was a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey in Bath, England, where he was educated.
He was a friend of Ronald Knox and of Evelyn Waugh, who described Dom Hubert\'s writings as characterized by vitality and elegance..
The author of numerous books ranging from scriptural commentary to fiction and biography, he was also renowned as a minimalist sculptor and cartoonist.
Of his scholastic career he said that he passed no examinations-merely by-passed them.
Van Zeller, Dom Hubert: - Born in British-controlled Egypt, Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) was a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey in Bath, England, where he was educated