George dalgarno biography

George Dalgarno (1626 - 1687) fue un lingüista y filósofo escocés.

Pasó la mayor parte de su vida enseñando gramática en una escuela privada en Oxford, pese a lo cual estuvo en contacto con los principales intelectuales oxonienses de la época, como John Wilkins, Francis Lodwick y Robert Boyle.

Fue autor de una lengua sintética que presentó en su libro Ars signorum (1661), así como de la obra Didascalocophus (1680).

Según varios investigadores (como William F. Friedman, John Tiltman y otros), el Manuscrito Voynich parece haber sido escrito en algún tipo de lengua sintética como la descrita por Dalgarno.

Scottish intellectual (d. 1687)

George Dalgarno (c. 1616 – 1687) was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Originally from Aberdeen, he later worked as a schoolteacher in Oxford in collaboration with John Wilkins, although the two parted company intellectually in 1659.

Life

Dalgarno matriculated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1631. Subsequently, he was a schoolteacher in Oxford in the 1650s. In 1657, he was encouraged to upgrade a system of shorthand on which he was working, by Samuel Hartlib, to a more ambitious universal system and he published on the subject later the same year. This effort brought him into contact with members of the Oxford Philosophical Club, one of the precursors of the Royal Society.^[1]

Works

Dalgarno was the author of Didascalocophus or the Deaf and Dumb man's tutor (1680), which proposed a totally new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes.

Dalgarno was also interested in constructing what he called a 'philosophical language', now more usually referred to as universal language. A modern translation of his Ars signorum (Art of Signs, 1661) was published in 2001 in an edition that also includes his autobiography and other manuscript writings.

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Dictionary of Safe Biography, 1885-1900/Dalgarno, George

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