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

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Life

Marius Chaîne was born in 1873 in

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. He studied at the School of Higher Studies at the Sorbonne, and the School of the Louvre in Paris. In 1897 he was ordained and joined the

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, but abandoned it after

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. Chaîne was a professor of Oriental languages at

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, Beirut; the

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, Rome; and the

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. 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
/ref> He devoted his life to Ethiopic and Coptic philology.Ficquet 2003.

Works

* 1907: ''Grammaire éthiopienne''. Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique. Nouvelle édition 1938.
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at the

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). * 1909: ''Apocrypha de B. Maria Virgine''. Lipsiae: Harrassowitz. * 1912: ''Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection d’Abbadie''. Paris: Leroux. * 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. * 1938: ''Notions de langue égyptienne''. Paris. * 1955: ''La proposition nominale dans les dialectes coptes''. Paris: A.-Maisonneuve.

References

* Ficquet, Eloi (2003). "Chaîne, Marius", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica'' Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 709b. * Guillaumont, A. (1962). "Marius Chaîne, 1873-1960", in: ''Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale'' 61, pp. 11–13. * Trinquet, Joseph (1975-1976). "L'activité scientifique de Marius Chaîne (1873-1960)", in: ''Parole de l'Orient'' 6-7, pp. 537–551.

Footnotes

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