Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France, 1823 1823

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France, 1823 1823

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.410.D92.1-ead.xml

The commission of the Institut de France was charged with offering a prize on linguistics, under the will of Count Volney. Formerly, this essay was thought to have been by Baron Nicolas Massias (1764-1848), who won the Volney prize in 1828. However, the note that the volume was shipped from New York precludes that.

1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 170 p.

American Philosophical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6630897

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Institut de France.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj6dd0 (corporateBody)

Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pq1sks (person)

Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp54tm (person)

Du Ponceau was a Philadelphia lawyer who arrived in Portsmouth, N.H., from France in 1777, achieved early prominence as an aide to von Steuben, and as secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Congress in 1781. Du Ponceau was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1785 where his familiarity with both American and European law brought him an important practice. His intellectual interests included both history and linguistics and he published extensively in both fields. He ...

Massias, Nicolas, baron, 1764-1848

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gj0nb1 (person)