Edward Lhuyd

Edward Lhuyd ( in Welsh standard orthography: Llwyd, * 1660 in Ceredigion, † July 30, 1709 in Oxford) was a Welsh natural and social scientists.

Life

After his studies at Oxford canceled in 1682, he was appointed in 1690 to the curator of the Ashmolean Museum there, which he remained until his death. From 1697 he undertook study tours to the Celtic-speaking countries Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. In 1699 he published with the financial support of the Isaac Newton Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia in which he cataloged fossils from England. 1701, the title of MA honoris causa he was awarded by the University of Oxford.

Results of his research trips Celtic Studies, including the only contemporary scientific description of the grammar and phonology was not yet extinct Cornish, he published in 1707 in the first volume of his Archaeologia Britannica. For his descriptions of the Celtic languages ​​he developed his own transcription, in which he chronicled the Cornish fairy tale Dzhûan Tshei to Hɐr among others. Before he could complete the planned further volumes, he died in 1709 at a pleurisy.

In 1699 he described in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society as the first trilobites ( Ogygiocarella debuchii from the Ordovician Llandeilo in Wales), but he still considered a sort of fluke. As an independently recognized the trilobites only Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch 1771st

Lhuyd in 1708 was elected as a member of the Royal Society.