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Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author. [1]
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Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author. [1]
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 by Mondon-Vidailhet include: [6]
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