Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet

Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author.

Life

François Marie Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet was born in Saint-Gaudens, in Haute-Garonne.

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.

He was professor at École nationale des langues orientales vivantes, where he was the first occupant of the chair of Amharic, which he taught from 1898 to 1910. He was succeeded by Marcel Cohen.

Works

Works by Mondon-Vidailhet include:

• Over 65 articles published in Le Temps between 1892 and 1910
• Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (1891). Manuel pratique de langue abyssine (amharique) a l'usage des explorateurs et des commerçants. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu58859420.
• Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (1902). La langue Harari et les dialectes Ethiopies du Gouraghê. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
• Mondon-Vidailhet, Casimir (2003). "La musique éthiopienne". Annales d'Éthiopie (in French). 19: 149–187. ISSN 2077-0820. (reprint of posthumous 1922 article)

See also

• Ethiopian manuscript collections
• Harari language

References

• Assefa, Taye; Bekele, Shiferaw (November 2000). "The Study of Amharic Literature: An Overview". Journal of Ethiopian Studies (Special Issue Dedicated to the XIVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies). 33 (2). Institute of Ethiopian Studies: 27–73. JSTOR 41966107.
• Chaîne, Marius (1913). Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de la collection Mondon-Vidailhet (in French). Paris: Leroux.
• Schneider, Roger; Vanderlinden, Jacques (July 1969). "A propos d'un manuscrit de Casimir Mondon Vidailhet adressé à Menelik II". Journal of Ethiopian Studies (in French). 7 (2): 165–194. JSTOR 41965793.
• Rouaud, Alain (1997). Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet: pioneer of the French-Ethiopian friendship (1847-1910) (in French and English). Addis-Abeba: Centre français des études éthiopiennes. doi:10.4000/books.cfee.564. ISBN 9782821872288. ISSN 1023-2966.
• Falceto, Francis (2003). "Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet et la musique éthiopienne". Annales d'Éthiopie (in French). 19: 119–147. ISSN 2077-0820.

Further reading

• Colt De Wolf, Bradford (25 September 1898). "Menelek and his Empire; Interesting Details Given by M. Mondon-Vidailhet, Director of Public Education in Abyssinia. Wise and Peaceful Monarch Not Likely to Oppose the British Army in Central Africa Unless It Encroaches Upon His Territory. The Country's Institutions". The New York Times.