Louis Lucien Bonaparte

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Louis Lucien Bonaparte

Louis Lucien Bonaparte (born January 4, 1813 in Thorngrove Castle, Grimley, Worcestershire , † November 3, 1891 in Fano , Italy ) was a French and Italian patron, linguist, Bascologist , Romance philologist and dialectologist who worked in London.

life and work

Louis Lucien Bonaparte was the son of Lucien Bonaparte , the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte , also the brother of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte , and the cousin of Napoléon III. He was born in England, grew up in Canino , Italy, attended the Jesuit college in Urbino and (after initially studying chemistry) devoted himself to linguistics.

In the Second French Republic , Bonaparte was a deputy in Corsica and then in the Seine department . After his cousin Napoléon III seized power. he became a senator in the Second Empire , went to London and lived (as a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and in contact with Alexander John Ellis and James Murray ) a scholarly life as a linguist.

After his divorce, as Napoleon's nephew, he intended to marry Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria . Her father, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, refused; his reason: it was "impossible for him to marry his daughter to a Napoleon". The applicant's not-too-good state of health was also used as a justification.

Bonaparte had his own printing press, in which he published numerous books as a patron, mainly translations of parts of the Bible into Italian, Sardinian, Spanish, English, Basque and others that were planned, requested and often commented on by him. a. Dialects. One of his most important translators was the Sardinian grammarian and lexicographer Giovanni Spano .

Bonaparte's most important own research concerns the Basque language . The manuscripts he left behind have recently been published in 24 volumes.

Since 1858 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

Works

  • Specimen lexici comparativi omnium linguarum Europæarum , Florence 1847
  • Langue basque et langues finnoises , London 1862
  • Le Verbe basque en tableaux, accompagné de notes grammaticales, selon les huit dialectes de l'euskara, ... avec les différences de leurs sous-dialectes et de leurs variétés , London 1869
  • Manuscritos-Publicaciones , ed. by D. Carlos Gonzalez Echegaray, Bilbao 1989
  • Opera Omnia Vasconice , 4 vols., Bilbao 1991
  • Bonaparte ondareko eskuizkribuak [abandoned manuscripts], ed. by Rosa Miren Pagola, Euskal Ikaskuntzen Institutua, Deustuko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao
    • 1992, Bizkaiera, 3 vols.
    • 1993, Gipuzkera, 6 vols.
    • 1994, Lapurtera, 2 vols.
    • 1995, Iparraldeko Goi-Nafarrera, 3 vols.
    • 1996, Hegoaldeko Goi-Nafarrera, 4 vols.
    • 1997-1, Aezkera
    • 1997-2, Zaraitzera
    • 1997-3, Erronkariera
    • 1999-1, Mendebaldeko behe-nafarrera
    • 1999-2, Ekialdeko behe-nafarrera, 2 vols.
    • 1999-3, Zuberera, 2 vols.
    • 2004, Bilduma osoaren Edizio Digitala

literature

  • Jose Antonio Arana Martija, Bibliografia Bonapartiana , Bilbao 1991
  • Rosa Miren Pagola, Luis-Luziano Bonaparte (1813-1891), Gasteiz 1991 (16 pages)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 3, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Bonaparte, Louis Lucien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonaparte, Luigi Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French and Italian patron, linguist, bascologist, Romance philologist and dialectologist who worked in London
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorngrove Castle, Grimley, Worcestershire
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1891
Place of death Fano , Italy