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Welsh polyglot Dic Aberdaron 1780–1843 | ||
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 2 31 July 2013 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
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I was in St Asaph in North Wales over the last 2 days. In the dining room of the hotel
where I was staying was a portrait of an interesting looking man with full beard and bright piercing eyes. On the legend below it said the portrait was of a Welsh polyglot from the 18th-19th centuries. It seemed that in spite of little formal education, he had managed to teach himself at least 10 languages including Greek, Latin and Hebrew. He is buried in the grounds of St Asaph parish church, and some of his dictionaries are on display in St Asaph cathedral. I forgot to write down his name, but google and wikipedia came to the rescue: Dic Aberdaron An interesting chap. Edited by montmorency on 02 August 2013 at 3:19pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 2 01 August 2013 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
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More about mr. Jones here (with the bulk of the goodies under 'more information' at the bottom).
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