Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie

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Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie
Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie in Ethiopian clothes a few months before his death in 1893
Born	24 July 1815 Dublin, Ireland
Died	8 November 1893 (1893-11-09) (aged 78) Ciboure, France
Nationality	French, Basque
Citizenship	France
Scientific career
Fields	Explorer, Geographer

Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie d'Arrast, listed in the Chambers Biographical Dictionary as Michel Arnaud d'Abbadie^[1] (born 24 July 1815 in Dublin; died 8 November 1893 in Ciboure) was an Irish-born French and Basque explorer, best known for his travels in Ethiopia with his elder brother Antoine d'Abbadie d'Arrast. Arnaud was a geographer, ethnologist, linguist, familiar with the Abyssinian polemarch and an active witness to their battles and the life of their courts. The general account of the two brothers' travels was published by Arnaud in 1868 under the title Douze ans de séjour dans la Haute-Ethiopie [fr].