ADAM, LUCIEN. - Born in Nancy in 1833, died in Brittany in 1918, a magistrate in French Guiana and later in France. Editor of various "arts" (grammars) by ancient missionaries: *Arte de la lengua de los Indios Boares* (1880); *Arte y vocabulario de la lengua chiquita* (1880); *Arte de la lengua timuquana* (1886); *Arte de la lengua de los Indios Antis ó Compas*. He continued this work by compiling grammars of American languages and writing on comparative glottology and general linguistics.
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