Name Marcel Cohen | ||
Died November 5, 1974, Viroflay, France Books Traite de langue amharique (Abyssinie), Language: Its Structure and Evolution | ||
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Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen (February 6, 1884 – November 5, 1974) was a French linguist. He was an important scholar of Semitic languages and especially of Ethiopian languages. He studied the French language and contributed much to general linguistics.
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Life
Marcel Cohen was born in Paris. He studied at the Lycee Condorcet. He attended Antoine Meillet's lectures at the College de France and the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. In 1905 he registered at the Ecole des langues orientales and graduated in 1909. He Studied Amharic (under Mondon-Vidailhet), French linguistics, Sanskrit, Ge'ez and South Arabian. He wrote his thesis on the Arabic dialect of the Jews of Algiers (Le parler arabe des juifs d'Alger). Between March 1910 and June 1911, he undertook a journey to Ethiopia in which he collected much material on Ethiopian languages. He succeeded Mondon-Vidailhet, who had just died, as charge de cours d'Abyssin at the Ecole des langues orientales. In 1916 he became Assistant Professor and in 1926 a full Professor. In 1919 he also became professor of Ethiopic at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. He had several students who became distinguished ethiopisants, such as: Wolf Leslau, Stefan Strelcyn and Joseph Tubiana.