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Héli Chatelain

Died in 1908

Héli Chatelain was born on 29 April 1859 in Murten, Switzerland, into a family of watchmakers. Infirm from childhood, he taught himself languages and taught in Lausanne, then studied theology and medicine in New York. A missionary in Angola under the American bishop William Taylor, he became a specialist in Kimbundu, of which he published a grammar. He founded a Philafrican league against slavery, then a mission at Caluquembe, among the Ovimbundu. Ill, he returned to Switzerland in 1907 and died in Lausanne on 22 July 1908.

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