Maurice Delafosse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice Delafosse

French academic

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1870

Place of Birth: Sancergues, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1926

Profession: historian, colonial administrator

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maurice Delafosse (20 December 1870 – 13 November 1926) was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa.
In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."