Firmin Rodegem

Firmin Rodegem, also known as François-Marie Rodegem, a Belgian, was born on 12 February 1919. He entered the White Fathers in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1948. He was a linguist and ethnologist, and founded at Ngozi, in Burundi, a centre for the study of languages and customs. He published a Rundi-French dictionary at Tervuren, then translated Burundian tales and a guide for learning the Bantu languages, and taught at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1972 to 1974. He died on 20 November 1991.

In the catalogue 1

• TaleAnthologie rundiFirmin Rodegem · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature