Charles Sacleux

Charles Joseph Sacleux, CSSp (1856–1943) was a French Catholic missionary and linguist. He is known also as a botanist, having collected a herbarium of over 2,000 plants in East Africa and Zanzibar.

Life Sacleux was born on 5 July 1856 in Enquin, Pas-de-Calais in northern France, the second of three sons born to Auguste Sacleux, who died when he was five, and his wife, Marie Firmine Bayart. Charles joined the junior seminary at Arras in 1869 before spending a year at senior seminary beginning in 1874. He joined the Holy Ghost Fathers in 1875 and was ordained a priest in 1878.

Works Sacleux wrote:

Essai de phonétique avec son application à l'étude des idiomes''' (1905) Grammaire des dialectes swahilis'' (1909)