Talk:Jakob Abbadie

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I can't verify in any reference (other than this entry in Wikipedia) that the place called "Nay" exists or ever existed in Switzerland. Does anyone know any more about this place?Derek Balsam
 * According to Polish Encyklopedia katolicka (The catholic encyklopedia) he was born in Nay in Béarn - not in Bern. It's very probable, because he spoke and wrote in French, studied in France, was expelled from France and livded in the French community in Germany. 83.24.108.163 09:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I looked at the source for the Dictionary of National Biography Wikisource: Volume 1 p. 15 It too says he was born in was born at Nay, near Pau. A quick Google turns up Google Map and an old old travel guide (The Spas of Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy by Thomas More Maddenp. 344). So I think that the entry for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Abbadie, Jakob is not correct.

A second source in the article "Henry Cotton. Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland, Volume I, Hodges & Smith, 1851. p. 478" like Britannica states Switzerland but it predates Britannica 1911 and as such may also be wrong.

The current ODNB states:

Therefor I am going to remove the word Swiss from the the text. --PBS (talk) 11:17, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Merging
Text from the DNB was dumped into this article, rather than integrated. I'm doing what I can with it all. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It would be nice if the different merged text could be footnoted so that the attribution is clear. --PBS (talk) 10:28, 20 July 2009 (UTC)