Antoine Thomson and Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (born January 3, 1810 in Dublin ; † March 19, 1897 in Paris ) was, like his brother Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (born July 24, 1815 in Dublin; † November 13, 1893 in Urrugne ) , a French geographer and explorer . Both were known for their travels in Abyssinia and its neighboring countries.
Life
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie and Arnaud Michel d'Abbadie were the children of a French and an Irish woman who moved from Ireland to France in 1818. Here the two brothers became fully naturalized and prepared themselves for the exploration of Ethiopia , especially in physical-geographical relation.
In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a research mission to Brazil ; Arnaud spent some time in Algeria . After their return, they went to Massaua on the Red Sea in 1837 and now traveled, partly together, partly individually, a significant part of Abyssinia, not only the well-known northern and central landscapes, but also the southern areas of Enarea and Kaffa , which had hardly been explored until then .
Her journey was fraught with difficulties; They were also involved in political intrigues by the then ruler of Tigré , Ubié, as well as in the overthrow of the Catholic missionaries in Adua . Loaded with scientific treasures of all kinds, numerous ancient Ethiopian manuscripts and vocabularies, they returned to France in 1848.
In 1859 Antoine published an ordered list and description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts. It followed u. a. the results of the field measurements (1860–1873) and in 1890 a volume on the geography of Ethiopia. There was much controversy about his geographical research results, which proved to be unfounded by reviews of subsequent expeditions, but Antoine was wrong about the fact that the Blue Nile was the main source river of the Nile .
Arnaud visited Ethiopia again in 1853.
Antoine was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1852 and a full member since 1867 .
Fonts
Antoine d'Abbadie, the more important of the two brothers, published not only absent-minded articles
- Catalog raisonné des manuscrits éthiopiens (Paris 1859) and the valuable
- Géodésie d'Ethiopie (Paris 1860–1873), in which about 900 points in Abyssinia are determined according to their position and height; further:
- Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Brésil et en Ethiopie (Paris 1873) and
- Dictionnaire de la langue Amarǐñña (Paris 1881).
Arnaud d'Abbadie provided the comprehensive report of the brothers' entire journeys in his work
- Douze ans dans la Haute-Ethiopie Paris 1868, two volumes.
literature
- Anke Fischer-Kattner: Traces of the encounter. European travelogues about Africa 1760 to 1860 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36081-1 ; therein Chapter 5: Antoine and Arnauld d'Abbadie , p. 305 ff.
- Abbadie . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 15.
- Abbadie, Antoine Thomson D 'and Arnaud Michel D' . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-Androphagi . London 1910, p. 9 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Rodolphe Radau : Death Notice. In: Astronomische Nachrichten , Volume 143, 1897, p. 213 (French) bibcode : 1897AN .... 143..213R (obituary for Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie).
Web links
- Literature by and about Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Antoine-Thomson d 'Abbadie and Arnaud-Michel d' Abbadie . In: Encyclopædia Britannica .
- ^ List of members since 1666: letter A. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 30, 2019 (French).