Joseph Trinquet

Joseph Trinquet
BornJune 7, 1919
Villedieu, France
DiedAugust 17, 2001
Valréas, France
OccupationSulpician priest
Academic work
Disciplineancient Ethiopian
InstitutionsInstitut Catholique de Paris
Saint-Sulpice seminary
Notable worksnotes for Canon Osty's complete translation of the Bible

Joseph Trinquet (June 7, 1919, in Villedieu – on August 17, 2001, in Valréas) was a French Sulpician priest and professor of ancient Ethiopian at the École des Langues Orientales Anciennes of the Institut Catholique de Paris.[1] He wrote the notes for Canon Osty's complete translation of the Bible. This translation was first published in twenty-two fascicles by Editions Rencontres in 1970, then in a single volume by Editions du Seuil in 1973.

Biography

Son of a gardener and a cardboard-maker, he studied at the Valréas free school, then at the Petit and Grand Séminaires in Avignon, and later in Rome.[2] Ordained a priest of Saint-Sulpice in 1943, he was incardinated into the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon.

From 1945 to 1985, he taught at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

References

  1. ^ Pérès, Jacques-Noël (2003). "À la recherche des héritiers de Salomon et de la reine de Saba, ou vaut-il la peine aujpourd'hui d'apprendre l'éthiopien?". Transversalités: revue de l'Institut catholique de Paris (85): 1.
  2. ^ Tourniaire, Claude (2003). "Monsieur Joseph Trinquet, prêtre de Saint-Sulpice, citoyen de Valréas". Transversalités: revue de l'Institut catholique de Paris (85): 89.