Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet
French journalist, philologist and author
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Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author.[1]
Life
François Marie Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet was born in Saint-Gaudens, in Haute-Garonne.[2]
He was journalist for Le Temps. In this role, he left France for Ethiopia in 1891, and stayed there from 1892 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1897.[3]
He was professor at École nationale des langues orientales vivantes,[4] where he was the first occupant of the chair of Amharic, which he taught from 1898 to 1910. He was succeeded by Marcel Cohen.[5]
Works
Works by Mondon-Vidailhet include:[6]
- Over 65 articles published in Le Temps between 1892 and 1910
- Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (1891). Manuel pratique de langue abyssine (amharique) a l'usage des explorateurs et des commerçants. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu58859420.
- Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (1902). La langue Harari et les dialectes Ethiopies du Gouraghê. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
- Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (2003). "La musique éthiopienne". Annales d'Éthiopie (in French). 19: 149–187. ISSN 2077-0820. (reprint of posthumous 1922 article)
