Maurice Delafosse
French academic (1870-1926) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 55
Maurice Delafosse was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."
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France
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Writers
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Lived 1870 to 1926 · aged 55