Marius Chaîne Explained
| Marius Chaîne |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Tarascon, France |
| Occupation: | Scholar |
Abbé Marius Chaîne (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of Ethiopic and Coptic philology.
Life
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.
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
- 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: Book: Chaîne, Marius . Marius Chaîne . 1913 . . 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]
Further reading
- Trinquet, Joseph (1975-1976). "L'activité scientifique de Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)", in: Parole de l'Orient 6-7, pp. 537–551.
Notes and References
- Guillaumont . Antoine . Antoine Guillaumont . 1962 . Marius Chaîne (1873-1960) . . 61 . 11-13 . French .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQuAAAAYAAJ&q=W.H.+Grattan+Flood&pg=PA10 "Chaine, Reverend Marius", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 28
- 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 . PhD . . French .
