ADAM, LUCIEN. — Born in Nancy in 1833, died in Brittany in 1918; magistrate in French Guiana and later in France. Editor of several “arts” (grammars) by early missionaries: Arte de la lengua de los Indios
Boares (1880); Arte y vocab. de la lengua chiquita (1880); Arte de la lengua timuquana (1886); Arte de la lengua de los Indios Antis & Compas. He complemented this activity by compiling grammars of American languages and writing on comparative glottology and general linguistics.