Georges Thibaut’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro French explorer 1795-1869
Was Explorer
From France
Sudan
Gender male
Birth

5 January 1795, Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France

Death

9 November 1869, Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
(aged 74 years)

Star sign Capricorn

Georges Thibaut dit Ibrahim-Effendi ou Shawki Ibrahim (Paris, 5 janvier 1795-Khartoum, 9 novembre 1869) est un explorateur français.

Biographie

Négociant établi à Khartoum, vice-consul (1829-1869), il participe à trois expéditions pour rechercher les sources du Nil (1839-1842) et remonte le Nil Blanc jusqu’à 6°10′ et le Sobat. Il accueille Ferdinand Werne, Louis Sabatier et Joseph-Pons d’Arnaud à qui il sert d’aide-naturaliste (1840-1841) et atteint Gondokoro.

En 1841-1842, il accompagne d’Arnaud sur le Nil mais doit renoncer à cause d’une épidémie de dysenterie. Il meurt d’une fièvre comme toute sa famille à Khartoum en 1869.

Publication

  • Expédition à la recherche des sources du Nil (1839-1840). Journal de M. Thibaut publié par les soins de M. d’Escayrac de Lauture, 1856

Bibliographie

  • Numa Broc, Dictionnaire illustrée des explorateurs et grands voyageurs français du XIX siècle, t. 1, «Afrique», C.T.H.S., 1988, p. 309-310
  • Alain Rouaud, Les orientalistes sont des aventuriers, 1999, p. 223
  • Alexandre Tarrieu, Georges Thibaut, in Cette longue liste d’explorateurs, Bulletin de la Société Jules-Verne n 184, décembre 2013, p. 28
  • Portail de l’exploration
  • Portail de l’Afrique
  • Portail de la France au XIX siècle
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