Abbé ''Abbé'' (from Latin , in turn from Greek , , from Aramaic ''abba'', a title of honour, literally meaning "the father, my father", emphatic state of ''abh'', "father") is the French word for an abbot. It is also the title used for lower-ranki ...

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

Copt Copts (; ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Northeast Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egyptians. Copts pre ...

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

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Marius Chaîne was born in 1873 in

Tarascon Tarascon (; ), sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a commune situated at the extreme west of the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Inhabitants are referred to as Tarasconnais or Tara ...

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( ; , ; ; "the Mouths of the Rhône") is a Departments of France, department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var (department), Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the sout ...

. He studied at the

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at the Sorbonne, where he was a student of

Joseph Halévy __NOTOC__ Joseph Halévy (15 December 1827, in Adrianople – 21 January 1917, in Paris) was an Ottoman born Jewish-French Orientalist and traveller. His most notable work was done in Yemen, which he crossed during 1869 to 1870 in search of Sa ...

, and at the

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in Paris, where he was a student of Eugène Revillout. 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

Saint Joseph University Saint Joseph University of Beirut (; French: ''Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth'', commonly known as USJ) is a private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Go ...

, Beirut; the

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, Rome; and the

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. He penned the article "Ethiopia" for the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. 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 Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Garonne department The following is a list of the 586 communes in the French department of Ha ...

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...

Works

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

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). * 1909: ''Apocrypha de B. Maria Virgine''. Lipsiae: Harrassowitz. * 1912: ''Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection d’

Abbadie Abbadie or d'Abbadie is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie (1810–1897), French explorer of notably Ethiopia * Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815–1893), Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie's brother, ...

''. 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.

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