Abbé Marius Chaîne (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of Ethiopic and Coptic philology.
Marius Chaîne | |
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Born | Tarascon, France | 10 August 1873
Died | 19 January 1960 | (aged 86)
Occupation | Scholar |
Life
editMarius Chaîne was born in 1873 in Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône. He studied at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, where he was a student of Joseph Halévy, and at the École du Louvre in Paris, where he was a student of Eugène Revillout.[1] In 1897 he was ordained and joined the Society of Jesus, but abandoned it after World War I.[citation needed]
Chaîne was a professor of Oriental languages at Saint Joseph University, Beirut; the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; and the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He penned the article "Ethiopia" for the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2]
He devoted his life to Ethiopic and Coptic philology.[3]
He died at Sainte-Marie du Désert Abbey, in Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie, Haute-Garonne.[4]
Works
edit- 1907: Grammaire éthiopienne. Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique. Nouvelle édition 1938.[1] (online version at the Internet Archive).
- 1909: Apocrypha de B. Maria Virgine. Lipsiae: Harrassowitz.
- 1912: Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection d’Abbadie. Paris: Leroux.[1]
- 1913: Chaîne, Marius (1913). Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection Mondon-Vidailhet. Paris: Leroux.
- 1925: La chronologie des temps chrétiens de l'Égypte et de l'Éthiopie. Paris: Geuthner.
- 1933: Éléments de grammaire dialectale copte: bohairique, sahidique, achmimique, fayoumique. Paris: Paul Geuthner.[1]
- 1934: Les dialectes coptes assioutiques A2.[1]
- 1938: Notions de langue égyptienne (Vol. I). Paris.[1]
- 1942: Notions de langue égyptienne (Vol. II). Paris.[1]
- 1955: La proposition nominale dans les dialectes coptes. Paris: A.-Maisonneuve.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h Guillaumont, Antoine (1962). "Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)". Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (in French). 61: 11–13.
- ^ "Chaine, Reverend Marius", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 28 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Ficquet, Eloi (2003). "Chaîne, Marius", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 709b
- ^ Henein, Nagi Athanasios (2008). Le Monachisme Egyptien révélateur de l'âme copte (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Limoges.
Further reading
edit- Trinquet, Joseph (1975-1976). "L'activité scientifique de Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)", in: Parole de l'Orient 6-7, pp. 537–551.