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[[Abbé]] '''Marius Chaîne''' (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of [[Ethiopic]] and [[Copt]]ic [[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]].<ref name="Guillaumont">{{cite journal |last1=Guillaumont |first1=Antoine |author-link1=Antoine Guillaumont |date=1962 |title=Marius Chaîne (1873-1960) |url=https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/61/3/ |journal=[[Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale]] |volume=61 |issue= |pages=11-13 |language=French |doi= |access-date=}}</ref> In 1897 he was ordained and joined the [[Society of Jesus]], but abandoned it after [[World War I]].{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

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''.<ref>[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]{{PD-notice}}</ref>

He devoted his life to Ethiopic and Coptic philology.<ref name="Ficquet1">Ficquet, Eloi (2003). "Chaîne, Marius", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica'' Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), p. 709b</ref>

He died at Sainte-Marie du Désert Abbey, in [[Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie]], [[Haute-Garonne]].<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Henein |first=Nagi Athanasios |date=2008 |title=Le Monachisme Egyptien révélateur de l'âme copte |url=http://www.theologica.fr/!_Pg_Patristique_Theologiens&OrdresMonastiques_4/Monachisme/Monachisme%201/Le%20monachismle%20Egyptien.pdf |type= |degree=PhD |chapter= |publisher=[[Université de Limoges]] |docket= |oclc= |language=French |access-date=}}</ref>

== Works ==

* 1907: ''Grammaire éthiopienne''. Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique. Nouvelle édition 1938.<ref name="Guillaumont"/> ([https://archive.org/details/grammairethiop00chauoft online version] at the [[Internet Archive]]).
* 1909: ''Apocrypha de B. Maria Virgine''. Lipsiae: Harrassowitz.
* 1912: ''Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection d’[[Antoine d'Abbadie|Abbadie]]''. Paris: Leroux.<ref name="Guillaumont"/>
* 1913: {{cite book |last= Chaîne |first=Marius |author-link=Marius Chaîne |date=1913 |title=Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection [[Mondon-Vidailhet]] |url= |location=Paris |publisher=Leroux |page= |isbn=}}
* 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: [[Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner|Paul Geuthner]].<ref name="Guillaumont"/>
* 1934: ''Les dialectes coptes assioutiques A2''.<ref name="Guillaumont"/>
* 1938: ''Notions de langue égyptienne'' (Vol. I). Paris.<ref name="Guillaumont"/>
* 1942: ''Notions de langue égyptienne'' (Vol. II). Paris.<ref name="Guillaumont"/>
* 1955: ''La proposition nominale dans les dialectes coptes''. Paris: A.-Maisonneuve.<ref name="Guillaumont"/>

== References ==
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== 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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