Joseph Planta

Joseph Planta ( born February 10, 1744 Castasegna, † December 3, 1827 in London) was a British librarian, historian and linguist Swiss origin.

Life and work

Childhood

Planta was born in Graubünden and grew up to the age of eight in Franconia, where his father, Andreas von Planta (1717-1773) from 1745 to 1752 first steward at the court of Frederick III. (Brandenburg -Bayreuth ) and Wilhelmina of Prussia ( 1709-1758 ) in Bayreuth was then (as now Postdoctoral ) Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen and at the Gymnasium Carolinum in Ansbach, and his uncle Martin Plantation 1745-1748 tutor to the Family Seckendorf. 1752 came the eight -year-old Plantation to London.

The librarian and scholar

Planta studied at the universities of Utrecht and Göttingen and was around 1768 Secretary of the British Ambassador in Brussels. From 1773 he made ​​a career as a librarian at the British Museum, first ( in the footsteps of his father ) as an assistant librarian from 1775 as assistant librarian, and finally from 1799 until his death as a library manager. From 1774 Plantation was a member ( sometimes also secretary ) of the Royal Society, in 1815 the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

The Romanist

On November 10, 1775 Plantation held at the Royal Society a paper entitled An account of the Romansh language, which was published in 1776 and printed in the same year was translated into German ud T. History of roman guage ( Churchill 1776; new ed. by Harald Haarmann, Hamburg 1983).

" Romansch " means at Plantation in about Vulgar Latin. He speaks of the " Gallic Romansch " and the " Grison Romansch " and compares the language of the Oaths of Strasbourg with the Romansh. Planta knows almost all Romance languages ​​and has " an intuition of the total Romania" ( Luedtke 2001, p 22).

Works

  • An account of the Romansh language, in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 66, 1 January 1776, p.129 -159; Menston, 1972; German: history of roman guage, Chur 1776; ed. by Harald Haarmann, Hamburg 1983
  • History of the Helvetic Confederacy, 2 vols, London 1800, 1807
  • A catalog of the manuscripts in the Cottonian library Deposited in the British Museum, London 1802
  • A View of the Restoration of the Helvetic Confederacy. Being a sequel to the history of republic did, London 1821
  • The history of Switzerland, from the conquests of Caesar to the abdication of Buonaparte, London 1825 (Summary of History of the Helvetic Confederacy, London 1800, 1807)
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