LC control no. | n 86142250 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Madiou, Thomas, 1814-1884 |
Associated country | Haiti |
Associated place | France |
Birth date | 1814-04-30 |
Death date | 1884-05-25 |
Place of birth | Port-au-Prince (Haiti) |
Field of activity | History |
Profession or occupation | Politicians Public officers Historians |
Found in | His Histoire d'Haïti, 1922: t.p. (Thomas Madiou) Nuc pre-56 (Madiou, Thomas, 1814-1884) Autobiographie, 2017: title page (Thomas Madiou) page 4 of cover (born Port-au-Prince [Haiti], April 30, 1814) page 254 (died May 25, 1884) Wikipedia, Feb. 9, 2018 (Thomas Madiou (1814-1884) was a Haitian historian, politician, public officer; his "Histoire d'Haïti" is considered one of the most valuable documents of Haitian history and literature; b. in Port-au-Prince, left Haiti at the age ten to study in France; attended the Law School of Paris for two years before returning to Haiti; in France, he met Isaac Louverture, the son of Haiti's revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture, the encounter sparked Madiou's interest in his country's past, and he returned to Haiti with the intention to write its history) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Madiou> |
Associated language | fre |