Ernest Sabatier

{{Short description|French historian, poet and missionary (1886–1965)}}

Ernest Sabatier (24 May 1886 – 13 February 1965){{Cite web |title=Ernest Sabatier |url=https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrCgHHM3Fch6tvKVrQrMP.html |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=WorldCat Entities}}Jean-Paul Latouche. Le père Ernest Sabatier, 1886-1965. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Paris, t. 22, p. 102, 1966. was a French historian, poet and a Catholic missionary from the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Oceania.{{Cite web |title=Ernest Sabatier (1886-1965) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/12515662/ernest_sabatier/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=BnF Data |language=fr}} He studied theology at University of Fribourg.{{Cite web |title=Sabatier, Ernest (1886-1965) |url=https://www.idref.fr/120130017 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=Id Ref |language=fr}}

Sabatier is known for studying the Gilbertese language in the former Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati). He arrived the Gilbert Islands in 1913.{{Cite book |last=Sabatier |first=Ernest |title=Astride the equator : an account of the Gilbert Islands |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Melbourne |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-19-550520-7 |translator-last=Nixon |translator-first=Ursula}}

He won the {{ill|Archon-Despérouses Prize|fr|Prix Archon-Despérouses}} for poetry in 1930.{{Cite web |title=Prix Archon-Despérouses |url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-archon-desperouses |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20170621002349/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-archon-desperouses |archive-date=2017-06-20 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=Académie française |language=fr }}