Ernest Sabatier (24 May 1886 – 13 February 1965)[1][2] was a French historian, poet and a Catholic missionary from the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Oceania.[3][4] He studied theology at University of Fribourg.[4]
Sabatier is known for studying the Gilbertese language in the former Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). He arrived the Gilbert Islands in 1913.[4][5]
He won the Archon-Despérouses Prize for poetry in 1930.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Ernest Sabatier". WorldCat Entities. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Jean-Paul Latouche. Le père Ernest Sabatier, 1886-1965. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Paris, t. 22, p. 102, 1966.
- ^ "Ernest Sabatier (1886-1965)". BnF Data (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ a b c "Sabatier, Ernest (1886-1965)". Id Ref (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Sabatier, Ernest (1977). Astride the equator : an account of the Gilbert Islands. Translated by Nixon, Ursula. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-550520-7.
- ^ "Prix Archon-Despérouses". Académie française (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
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