Ernest Sabatier (24 May 1886 ''–'' 13 February 1965) was a French historian, poet and a Catholic missionary from the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Oceania. He studied

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. Sabatier is known for studying the

Gilbertese language Gilbertese (), also known as Kiribati (sometimes ''Kiribatese'' or ''Tungaru''), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The word ''Kiribati'', the current name of t ...

in the former Gilbert Islands (now

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). He arrived the Gilbert Islands in 1913. He won the for poetry in 1930.

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1886 births 1965 deaths French missionaries 20th-century French poets 20th-century French historians {{france-historian-stub