Marius Chaîne

Marius Chaîne ( born August 10, 1873 in Tarascon, † January 19, 1960 in Sainte -Marie- du- Désert ) was a Catholic priest and a French orientalist.

Life

Marius Chaîne was dedicated to school and study in the seminary of Aix -en- Provence on June 29, 1897, for this diocese a Catholic priest, but changed a few months later, on 29 September 1897 to the Jesuits. After the novitiate, he learned his further education in Laval and Saint- Helier. He then worked as a secondary school for 1901-1904 history and geography at religious schools in Marseille and Cairo. 1904-1905 he studied at the Faculte Orientale the Université Saint -Joseph in Beirut. There he taught 1905-1908 Coptic and Ethiopic, as well as in Rome 1908-1910 during a theological graduate studies at the Gregorian University. 1911-1913 he continued his Orientalist studies continued in Paris. In 1913 he received the Professor of Ethiopian, Coptic and Egyptian at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. After only one year of study, he was drafted at the beginning of the First World War as a medic, and later chaplain and remained so until 1922. Afterwards, he left the Society of Jesus and was born on June 23, 1922 diocesan priests of the Diocese of Perpignan. He retired after Lévignac - sur-Save (Haute -Garonne) back and looked at his house " La CLAIRIERE " for many years as a private scholar. The nearby Cistercian Abbey of Sainte -Marie- du- Désert he felt intimately connected, spent the last weeks of his life, and rests on the local monastery cemetery. He is one of the greats of European Ethiopian 20th century and created her tools of lasting importance.

Major works

  • Grammaire éthiopienne. Imprimerie Catholique, Beyrouth, 1907. Nouvelle édition 1938.
  • Catalogue of manuscrits éthiopiens Antoine d' Abbadie de la Collection. Leroux, Paris, 1912.
  • Catalogue of manuscrits éthiopiens de la Collection Mondon - Vidailhet. Leroux, Paris, 1913.
  • Apocrypha de Virgine Maria B. ( CSCO 30-40/Aeth. 22-23), Harrassowitz, Lipsiae 1909.
  • La chronology des temps de l' Égypte chrétiens et de l' Éthiopie. Geuthner, Paris 1925.
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