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'''Abraham Moses Attrep''', known as '''Abe Attrep''' (February 12, 1933 – April 29, 2012), was an American [[historian]] affiliated for more than four decades with [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]].   

'''Abraham Moses Attrep''', known as '''Abe Attrep''' (February 12, 1933 – April 29, 2012), was an American [[historian]] affiliated for more than four decades with [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]].   

Attrep was one of six children born to Moses, Sr., and Nazha Attrep, an [[Episcopalian]] couple in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree summa cum laude from [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], across the  Red River from Alexandria; his [[Master of Arts]] from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], and his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Georgia]] at Athens, [[Georgia]]. After a brief teaching assignment at Millsaps College in [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], he came to Louisiana Tech,<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89652038|title=Abraham Moses Attrep|publisher=''Alexandria Town Talk'' on Findagrave.com|date=May 1, 2012|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> at which he remained a faulty member from 1962 to 2006. He was a scholar of the early period of history of the [[Christianity]]. medieval history, and cultural and intellectual history.<ref name=zoom>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Abraham-Attrep/323467699|title=Abraham M. Attrep|publisher=Zoominfo.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> He held the William Y. Thompson Endowed Professorship in History, named for the late history department chairman William Young Thompson (1922-2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/registrar/bulletin/2002-2003/faculty.pdf|title=Board of Regents Support Fund Endowed Faculty|publisher=[[Louisiana Tech University]]|accessdate=September 17, 2017}]</ref>   

Attrep was one of six children born to Moses, Sr., and Nazha Attrep, an [[Episcopalian]] couple in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree summa cum laude from [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], across the  Red River from Alexandria; his [[Master of Arts]] from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], and his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Georgia]] at Athens, [[Georgia]]. After a brief teaching assignment at Millsaps College in [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], he came to Louisiana Tech,<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89652038|title=Abraham Moses Attrep|publisher=''Alexandria Town Talk'' on Findagrave.com|date=May 1, 2012|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> at which he remained a faulty member from 1962 to 2006. He was a scholar of the early period of history of the [[Christianity]]. medieval history, and cultural and intellectual history.<ref name=zoom>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Abraham-Attrep/323467699|title=Abraham M. Attrep|publisher=Zoominfo.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> He held the William Y. Thompson Endowed Professorship in History, named for the late history department chairman William Young Thompson (1922-2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latech.edu/registrar/bulletin/2002-2003/faculty.pdf|title=Board of Regents Support Fund Endowed Faculty|publisher=[[Louisiana Tech University]]|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>   

Attrep died in Homer in Claiborne Parish at the age of seventy-nine of complications from a fall. After an Episcopalian funeral, he was interred at Pines Memorial Gardens in Ruston. One of his surviving brothers, Moses Attrep, Jr.<ref name=obit/> (1939-2013), died a year later. Moses Attrep was a chemistry professor at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall in Harrison County and from 1985 to 2002 a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladailypost.com/content/obituary-moses-attrep-jr-jan-2-1939–may-8-2013|title=Moses Attrep, Jr. Obituary|publisher=''Las Alamos Daily Post''|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>   

Attrep died in Homer in Claiborne Parish at the age of seventy-nine of complications from a fall. After an Episcopalian funeral, he was interred at Pines Memorial Gardens in Ruston. One of his surviving brothers, Moses Attrep, Jr.<ref name=obit/> (1939-2013), died a year later. Moses Attrep was a chemistry professor at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall in Harrison County and from 1985 to 2002 a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladailypost.com/content/obituary-moses-attrep-jr-jan-2-1939–may-8-2013|title=Moses Attrep, Jr. Obituary|publisher=''Los Alamos Daily Post''|location=Los Alamos, [[New Mexico]]|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>   

Attrep, who never married, was survived by two sisters, Sophie Nassif of Alexandria, and Georgia Karam of Kinder in Allen Parish. One of his sisters-in-law, Mary Attrep was also a sister-in-law of Attrep's Louisiana Tech colleague, [[B. H. Gilley]], who died in 2017. He spent his last days in the home in Homer of his niece, Becky, and her husband, David Lowe.<ref name=obit/> Former Louisiana Tech history department chairman Stephen Webre said that Attrep "taught generations of students who continue to remember him with gratitude and affection."<ref name=zoom/>

Attrep, who never married, was survived by two sisters, Sophie Nassif of Alexandria, and Georgia Karam of Kinder in Allen Parish. One of his sisters-in-law, Mary Attrep was also a sister-in-law of Attrep's Louisiana Tech colleague, [[B. H. Gilley]], who died in 2017. He spent his last days in the home in Homer of his niece, Becky, and her husband, David Lowe.<ref name=obit/> Former Louisiana Tech history department chairman Stephen Webre said that Attrep "taught generations of students who continue to remember him with gratitude and affection."<ref name=zoom/>