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]
Works
Works by Mondon-Vidailhet include:[5]
- Over 65 articles published in Le Temps between 1892 and 1910
- Mondon-Vidailhet, François Marie Casimir. 1902. La langue Harari et les dialectes Ethiopies du Gouraghe. 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)
See also
Notes
- ^ Rouaud 1997, p. 7-8 "Introduction".
- ^ Rouaud 1997, p. 9 "La jeunesse".
- ^ Schneider & Vanderlinden 1969, p. 165.
- ^ Chaîne 1913, p. v-vii "Préface".
- ^ Rouaud 1997, p. 67-73 "Sources & biliographies".
References
- Chaîne, Marius (1913). Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection Mondon-Vidailhet (in French). Paris: Leroux.
- Schneider, Roger; Vanderlinden, Jacques (July 1969). "A propos d'un manuscrit de Casimir Mondon Vidailhet adressé à Menelik II". Journal of Ethiopian Studies (in French). 7 (2): 165–194. JSTOR 41965793.
- Rouaud, Alain (1997). Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet: pioneer of the French-Ethiopian friendship (1847-1910) (in French). Addis-Abeba: Centre français des études éthiopiennes. doi:10.4000/books.cfee.564. ISSN 1023-2966.
- Falceto, Francis (2003). "Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet et la musique éthiopienne". Annales d'Éthiopie (in French). 19: 119–147. ISSN 2077-0820.