René-Ildefonse Dordillon

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René-Ildefonse Dordillon SSCC , (born October 14, 1808 , Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine , France , † January 11, 1888 , Taiohae , Polynesia ) was a Catholic priest of the Pères et religieuses des Sacrés-Cœurs de Picpus , missionary , Bishop of Taiohae ( Marquesas Islands) and eminent linguist .

biography

He was a cousin of Mgr Joseph François-de-Paul Baudichon SSCC, the first bishop of the Marquesas Islands. He was ordained a priest in 1832 and joined the Pères et religieuses des Sacrés-Cœurs de Picpus in 1836 . In 1845 he was transferred to the Marquesas and appointed Vicar Apostolic in 1856 ; on February 4, 1857 he was appointed titular bishop of Cambysopolis ( Alexandrette ). He was in office for over 30 years. At times he was supported by the Commissaire impérial Louis Eugène Gaultier de La Richerie and he succeeded in establishing cotton plantations and enriching the flora of the Marquesas with several new plant species: fig , pomegranate and vanilla . His work on the grammar of Marquesan "Grammaire et Dictionnaire de la langue des îles Marquises" is a standard work to this day.

In the literature

Robert Louis Stevenson immortalized Dordillon in his work Dans les mers du Sud

Works

  • Essai de grammaire de la langue des îles Marquises. 1857.
  • Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue des îles Marquises. 1904. [2]
  • Dictionnaire de la langue des Îles Marquises. Français Marquis. 1932.

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  • Père Chaulet: Mgr Dordillon, notice sur sa vie apostolique et sa mort. Paris 1888.
  • Dictionnaire illustré de la Polynésie. Vol. 2, Ed. Christian Gleizal, 1988.
  • RP Mouly SSCS: Aux îles Marquises - Secrets, candeurs et férocités de cannibales. Editions de l'Arc, 1949.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Louis Stevenson: Dans les mers du Sud. éd. de la Sirène, Paris 1920, pp. 117 ff. [1]
predecessor Office successor
Joseph François-de-Paul Baudichon SSCC Vicar Apostolic of the Marquesas Islands / Bishop of Taiohae
1856–1888 		Rogatien-Joseph Martin
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SURNAME Dordillon, René-Ildefonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French priest, Bishop of Taiohae, linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine , France
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1888
Place of death Taiohae , Polynesia