Delaware language collection, ca. 1779-1806 and undated.

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Delaware language collection, ca. 1779-1806 and undated.

ca. 1779-1806 and undated

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612800246

Grammars, dictionaries, and vocabularies of the Delaware and Arawak languages and hymns, sermons, speeches, a gospel harmony, and other religious works in Delaware gathered or produced by Moravian missionaries in Ohio; includes the work of Bernard Adam Grube, David Zeisberger, Samuel Lieberkuhn, Abraham Luckenbach, and Benjamin Mortimer. Includes a vocabulary in the Cherokee language and translations. Also with papers concerning the history of the collection, including items by John Langdon Sibley, Jared Sparks, and Edward Everett.

20 volumes and 1 folder (2 linear ft.)

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Luckenbach, Abraham, 1777-1854

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Lieberkühn, Samuël 1710-1777

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Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808

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David Zeisberger served as a Moravian missionary. From the guide to the On the prepositions of the Onondago language, [n.d.], n.d., (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816], Circa 1816, (American Philosophical Society) Moravian missionary who worked to convert the Indians of Tuscarawas County, Ohio to Christianity. After hostile Indians forced them to leave the area, Zeisberger...

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885

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John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877 to 1885. He was the editor of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue from 1839 to 1875 and of the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue from 1875-1885. A noted biographer, Sibley is best known for his "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University", an extensive collection of biographical material on Harvard graduates. Sibley was ...

Grube, Bernhard Adam, 1715-1805

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Mortimer, Benjamin, 1749 or 1750-

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