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Zeuss, Kaspar, 1806-1856 (German historian and founder of Celtic philology)

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Celtic Philology: History of the Celts and Celtic (Notes for a lecture series), 1884-1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/14
Scope and Contents A bundle of 10 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1884 and 1885. The following notebooks survive:'The Celts before Caesar'; and '(II) The Celts at the time of Caesar' (Item B37a)'Classification of languages as isolating, agglutinative, and amalgamating'; and '(II) Linguistics studies of the Ancients and the Middle Ages' (Item B37b)'Sanskrit'; and 'Celtic [as an] Indo-European...
Dates: 1884-1885

Notes on Gaelic scholars, Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/37
Scope and Contents

Probably a script for a lecture on Celtic scholars, some of which are listed in the agents section of this record. There may be other scholars in the document who have not been added to the record.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

Papers of Rev. Donald Macrae, Minister of Edderton, Ross-shire

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-405
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of translations of Zeuss'sGrammatica celtica: E monumentis vetustis tam hibernicae linguae quam britannicarum dialectorum, cambricae, cornicae, armoricae comparatis gallicae priscae reliquiispublished in Leipzig 1853, and Berlin 1871.

Dates: 20th century