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Mallon, Marie Alexia (1875-1934)

By Aziz Suryal Atiya

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mallon, marie alexis (1875-1934), French Egyptologist, Coptologist, and archaeologist. He was born at La Chapelle-Bertrin, Haute-Loire. He entered the Jesuit order in 1895. From 1902 he taught Coptic at the Saint Joseph University at Beirut and from 1913 at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, although living at Jerusalem. He died at Bethlehem.

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Dawson, W. R., and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology, p. 193. London, 1972. Kammerer, W., comp. A Coptic Bibliography. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1950; repr. New York, 1969. AZIZ S. ATIYA