Jean-Baptiste Chabot
Jean-Baptiste Chabot (16 February 1860 – 7 January 1948) was a Roman Catholic secular priest and the leading French Syriac scholar in the first half of the twentieth century.
Life
Born into a viticultural family at Vouvray-sur-Loire, Chabot trained at the seminary in Tours where he was ordained. Appointed as assistant priest to
He then studied at the School for Higher Studies at the Sorbonne, and under
An early student of the
Four years later he obtained a copy of the original Syriac version of Michael the Syrian's Universal Chronicle, which had been rediscovered in a church at Edessa in 1887 by Ephrem Rahmani, subsequently patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church. This led to the publication of four volumes of text with Latin translation in 1899, 1901, 1905, 1910 with a follow-up consisting of introduction, corrections and indices in 1924.
In 1903 Chabot founded the
In 1917 Chabot was elected a member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
In 1922 he published Choix d' inscriptions de Palmyre, a major work on Palmyrene Aramaic texts, and in 1935 a general introduction, Littérature Syriaque. He died in Paris, aged 87.
Major works:
- Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1902). Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (PDF). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
References
- ^ a b c "Chabot, Abbé Jean-Baptiste", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 28 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Sources
- E. Dhorme: «Notice sur la vie de M. L' Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chabot, membre de l'académie», in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, vol. 96 (1952), pp. 263–277.
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