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Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie

1815 - 1893

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Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie d'Arrast (24 July 1815 – 8 November 1893), also listed as Michel Arnaud d'Abbadie in the Chambers Biographical Dictionary was a French-Basque explorer of Irish origin, renowned for his extensive travels in Ethiopia alongside his elder brother, Antoine d'Abbadie d'Arrast. Arnaud distinguished himself as a geographer, ethnologist, and linguist, gaining intimate knowledge of Abyssinian polemarchs and serving as an active observer of their battles and courtly life. In 1868, Arnaud published the seminal account of their travels, titled Douze ans de séjour dans la Haute-Ethiopie(Twelve Years in Upper Ethiopia in english), providing a comprehensive narrative of their twelve-year sojourn in the region. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie is the 369th most popular explorer (up from 371st in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 190th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie ranks 369 out of 498. Before him are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Piet Retief, Vivian Fuchs, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, John Biscoe, and Stepan Krasheninnikov. After him are Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, George Bass, John Moresby, and Olav Bjaaland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie ranks 65. Before him are Marguerite Bays, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Henry Halleck, James Legge, Pavel Fedotov, and Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg. After him are Emanuel Geibel, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Ernest Goüin, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and Robert Franz. Among people deceased in 1893, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie ranks 64. Before him are Grigory Gagarin, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, Adolphe Yvon, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Michał Elwiro Andriolli, and Victor Schœlcher. After him are Aloys Sprenger, Samuel Baker, Charles of Mount Argus, James G. Blaine, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, and Duleep Singh.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie ranks 192 out of 549. Before him are William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Violet Gibson (1876), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), William Howard Russell (1820), and J. B. Bury (1861). After him are Markus Feehily (1980), William Thompson (1775), Tom Moore (1883), Patrick Bergin (1951), Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880), and Steve Barron (1956).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ireland

Among explorers born in Ireland, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie ranks 4. Before him are Ernest Shackleton (1874), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), and Edward Bransfield (1785). After him are Henry Kellett (1806), Tom Crean (1877), Robert McClure (1807), and Robert O'Hara Burke (1821).

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