Ernest Sabatier
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Ernest Sabatier (24 May 1886 – 13 February 1965)[1][2] was a French historian, poet and a Catholic missionary from the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Oceania.[3][4] He studied theology at University of Fribourg.[4]
Sabatier is known for studying the Gilbertese language in the former Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). He arrived the Gilbert Islands in 1913.[4][5]
He won the Archon-Despérouses Prize for poetry in 1930.[6]
