Edward Lhuyd
Edward Lhuyd (in standard Welsh orthography: Llwyd , * 1660 in Loppington, Shropshire , † July 30, 1709 in Oxford ) was a Welsh scientist and humanities scholar.
Life
After he had broken off his studies in Oxford in 1682, he was appointed curator of the Ashmolean Museum there in 1690, which he remained until his death. From 1697 he went on study trips to the Celtic-speaking countries of Scotland , Ireland , Wales , Cornwall and Brittany . In 1699, with the financial support of Isaac Newton, he published the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia , in which he cataloged fossil finds from England. 1701 he was awarded the title of MA honoris causa by the University of Oxford.
In 1707 he published the results of his Celtological research trips, including the only contemporary scientific description of the grammar and phonology of the Cornish , which was not yet extinct , in 1707 in the first volume of his Archaeologia Britannica . For his descriptions of the Celtic languages he developed his own phonetic transcription in which he recorded the Cornish fairy tale Dzhûan Tshei an H anr , among other things . Before he could finish the planned volumes, he died in 1709 of pleurisy.
In 1699 he was the first to describe trilobites (Ogygiocarella debuchii from the Ordovician in Llandeilo in Wales) in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , which he still considered to be a type of flatfish. The trilobites were first recognized as independent by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch in 1771.
1708 Lhuyd was elected as a member of the Royal Society .
literature
- Frank Vivian Emery: Edward Lhuyd, FRS, 1600-1709. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, Caerdydd 1971, ISBN 0-900768-67-3 .
- RT Gunther: Life and letters of Edward Lhwyd, second Keeper of the Musaeum Ashmoleanum. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1945 ( Early science in Oxford. 14, ZDB -ID 1075515-9 ), (Reprint: Dawsons of Pall Mall, London 1968).
- Brynley F. Roberts: Edward Lhuyd. The Making of a Scientist. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1980, ISBN 0-7083-0747-7 ( The GJ Williams Memorial Lecture ).
- Derek R. Williams: Prying into every Hole and Corner. Edward Lhuyd in Cornwall in 1700. Dyllansow Truran, Kernow 1993, ISBN 1-85022-066-2 .
- Derek R. Williams: Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709). A Shropshire Welshman. Oswestry & District Civic Society, Oswestry 2009.
Web links
- Dzhûan Tſhei To Hɐr . Full text on Wikisource
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Fortey : Trilobites! . 2000, p. 43
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lhuyd, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Llwyd, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Welsh botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loppington, Shropshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1709 |
| Place of death | Oxford |