The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d’

ABBADIE, Antoine Thomson and Arnaud Michel d’, dab-ad-ē, āń-twan toń-soń and ar-nō mē-shel, French brothers and explorers: b. Dublin, Ireland, 3 Jan. 1810: and 24 July 1815; d. 1897 and 1893, respectively. In 1837–48 whet explored Abyssinia and Upper Egypt, traveled up the White Nile, visited Darfur (regarded by the English in these places as French emissaries), and made a remarkably large collection of Ethiopic and Amharic manuscripts. Among other works Antoine published ‘Geodesy of Part of Upper Ethiopia’ (1860–73) and ‘Dictionary of the Amarin Language’ (1881); and Arnaud, ‘Twelve Years in Upper Ethiopia’ (1868).