MARTIN, PAULIN. - Orientalist and biblical scholar, b. at Lecam (Lot, France) on 20 July 1840, d. at Amélie-les-Bains (Eastern Pyrenees) on 14 Jan. 1890. He studied theology in Paris (St. Sulpice), where he was a disciple of Le Hir (v.), then in Rome, where he also cultivated canon law and the Oriental languages. From Oct. 1878 he taught Sacred Scripture and Oriental languages at the Catholic Institute of Paris, until his early death. His considerable output deals mainly with the Syriac language and the textual criticism of the New Testament.
In addition to very many articles, the following should be mentioned: Oeuvres grammaticales d'Aboul'Faradj, dit Bar-Hebraeus (2 vols., Paris 1872); Histoire de la ponctuation et de la massore chez les Syriens (ibid. 1875); Introduction à la critique générale de l'Anc. Test. (3 vols., ibid. 1887-98); Introduction à la critique textuelle du Nouv. Test. I. Partie théorique; II. Partie pratique (7 vols. in lithograph reproducing his course at the Catholic Institute from 1882 to 1886).
Bibliography2 worksE. Mangenot, M. l'abbé P. M., in Revue des sciences ecclésiastiques, 1891, pp. 451-51; O. Rey, s. v. in DB, IV, col. 828 f. Stanislao Lyonne
BIBL.: E. Mangenot, M. l'abbé P. M., in Revue des sciences ecclésiastiques, 1891, pp. 451-51; O. Rey, s. v. in DB, IV, col. 828 f.
Lyonnet, Stanislao. “Martin, paulin.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 206. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/martin-paulin.
MLA
Lyonnet, Stanislao. “Martin, paulin.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 206. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/martin-paulin.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_martin_paulin,
author = {Lyonnet, Stanislao},
title = {Martin, paulin},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {206},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/martin-paulin}
}
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