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Marius Chaîne

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Marius Chaîne
Born(1873-08-10)10 August 1873
Tarascon, France
Died19 January 1960(1960-01-19) (aged 86)
OccupationScholar

Abbé Marius Chaîne (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of Ethiopic and Coptic philology.

Life

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Marius 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Chaine, Reverend Marius", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 28Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Ficquet, Eloi (2003). "Chaîne, Marius", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 709b
  4. ^ Henein, Nagi Athanasios (2008). Le Monachisme Egyptien révélateur de l'âme copte (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Limoges.

Further reading

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  • Trinquet, Joseph (1975-1976). "L'activité scientifique de Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)", in: Parole de l'Orient 6-7, pp. 537–551.