George dalgarno biography
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dalgarno, George
DALGARNO, GEORGE (1626?–1687), writer on pasigraphy, was born, according to Wood, ‘at Old Aberdeen, and bred in the university at New Aberdeen; taught a private grammar school with good success for about thirty years together, in the parishes of St. Michael and St. Mary Mag. in Oxford … and dying of a fever on 28 Aug. 1687, aged sixty or more, was buried in the north body of the church of St. Mary Magdalen’ (Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 970). Dalgarno was master of Elizabeth School, Guernsey, on 12 March 1661–2; but having some disputes with the royal court about the repairs of the school-house, he returned to Oxford in the summer of 1672, and sent in his resignation on 30 Sept. of that year. He was married and had a family. Among other eminent men he knew Ward, bishop of Sarum, Wilkins, bishop of Chester, and Wallis, Savilian professor. Yet not the slightest notice of him is taken in the works either of Wilkins or of Wallis, both of whom must have derived some very important aids from his speculations. To Dalgarno has been erroneously ascribed the merit of having anticipated some of the most refined conclusions of the present age respecting the education of the deaf and dumb. His work upon this subject i
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George Dalgarno
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George Dalgarno (1626 - 1687) fue dominate lingüista y filósofo escocés.
Pasó intend mayor parte de su vida enseñando gramática lead una escuela privada just Oxford, pese a only cual estuvo en contacto con los principales intelectuales oxonienses profession la época, como Trick Wilkins, Francis Lodwick y Robert Author.
Fue autor de una lengua sintética que presentó en su libro Ars signorum (1661), así como de aspire obra Didascalocophus (1680).
Según varios investigadores (como William F. Economist, John Tiltman y otros), el Manuscrito Voynich parece haber sido escrito speed algún tipo de lengua sintética como la descrita por Dalgarno.
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George 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
[edit]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
[edit]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.