Antoine d\' Abbadie d\' Arrast
See also: Abbadie
Antoine Thomson d' Abbadie d' Arrast , born with Dublin the January 3rd 1810 and died in Paris the March 19th 1897, is a French scientist and traveller.
Biography
He studied with the national Muséum of natural history and with the Collège de France. He joined a scientific expedition with the Brésil organized by the Academy of Science in 1836, in order to carry out observations Magnétique S and of Géodésie.He explored the Ethiopia 1838 with 1848 with his brother Arnaud Michel (1815-1893). In addition to its work of Cartography of the country, he studied of it the Géologie, the Géographie and the Archéologie as well as the Natural history.
Following this forwarding, it published its reports on topography (1860-1873), the geography (1890) and a catalog of Ethiopian manuscripts (1859). In reward for its voyages, it accepted the gold medal of the Société of geography and the Légion of honor.
Antoine d' Abbadie was elected corresponding Academy of Science in 1852, then member in 1867. He directed the Company of geography in 1892. In 1882, it directed its last forwarding to the the Antilles for the observation of the Transit of Venus.
Source
- Marie-Louise Bauchot, Jacques Daget & Roland Bauchot (1997). “Ichthyology in France At the Beginning off the 19th Century: The “Natural history of Poisson “off Vat (1769-1832) and Valencian (1794-1865”) in Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology (T.W. Pietsch and W.D. Anderson, to dir.), American Society off Ichthyologists and Herpetologists: 27-80.
Related article
- the Castle of Abbadie conceived at the request of Antoine d' Abbadie d' Arrast.
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