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. 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."Chaine, Reverend Marius", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 28
He devoted his life to Ethiopic and Coptic philology.Ficquet, Eloi (2003). "Chaîne, Marius", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 709b
He died at Sainte-Marie du Désert Abbey, in Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie, Haute-Garonne.
Works
1907: Grammaire éthiopienne. Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique. Nouvelle édition 1938. (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. 1913: 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. 1934: Les dialectes coptes assioutiques A2. 1938: Notions de langue égyptienne (Vol. I). Paris. 1942: Notions de langue égyptienne (Vol. II). Paris. 1955: La proposition nominale dans les dialectes coptes. Paris: A.-Maisonneuve.
References
Further reading Trinquet, Joseph (1975-1976). "L'activité scientifique de Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)", in: Parole de l'Orient 6-7, pp. 537–551.
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