Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

Antoine Thomson d' Abbadie ( born January 3, 1810 in Dublin, † March 19, 1897 in Urrugne ) was, like his brother Michel Arnould d' Abbadie French explorer.

Antoine Thomson d' Abbadie and Arnould Michel d' Abbadie, two well-known by their travels in Abyssinia and its neighboring countries, French traveler, received their education in France, where they completely einbürgerten themselves and, on the research of Ethiopia, especially in physical- geographical relationship prepared.

They went to 1837, when the elder had returned from a trip to Brazil, according to Massawa on the Red Sea and traveled well, sometimes together, sometimes separately, a significant part of Abyssinia, not only the already known northern and central landscapes, but also the hitherto little-studied southern areas Enarea and Kaffa.

Their journey was associated with multiple difficulties; they were also implicated by the then ruler of Tigray, Ubie in political intrigue, as in the overthrow of the Catholic missionaries in Adua. Richly laden with scientific treasures of all kinds, many old Ethiopian manuscripts and vocabularies, they returned in 1848 returned to France, where they fragmentary began to publish the results of their research.

Since a large part of the latter by others could not be controlled, they fell under the suspicion of unreliability, but by later travelers have been fully justified. Antoine, the more important of the two brothers, published except scattered essays the

• Catalogue raisonné of manuscrits éthiopiens Paris in 1859 and the valuable
• Géodésie d' Ethiopie Paris. Are 1860-1873 in which 900 points against Abyssinia their position and height determined by; also:
• Observations relative à la physique du globe faites au Brésil et en Ethiopie Paris in 1873 and
• Dictionnaire de la langue Amarinna 1881.

The summary report on the whole travel of the brothers gave Arnould d' A. in his work

• Douze ans dans la Haute- Éthiopie Paris in 1868, two volumes.