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Adam, Lucien

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ADAM, LUCIEN. - Born in Nancy in 1833, died in Brittany in 1918, a magistrate in French Guiana and then in France. Editor of various "artes" (grammars) by ancient 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 rounded off this activity of his by compiling grammars of American idioms and writing on comparative glossology and general linguistics.

Benedetto Gioia

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 267–268.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Adam, lucien.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 267–268. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adam-lucien.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Adam, lucien.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 267–268. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adam-lucien.

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@incollection{ec1_adam_lucien,
  author    = {Benedetto Gioia},
  title     = {Adam, lucien},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {267--268},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adam-lucien}
}

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