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28 September 2009 at 5:37pm | IP Logged

I just read an article about scientist/polymath Thomas Young (1773 – 1829), in a Swedish magazine. He has already been mentioned briefly in two HTLAL threads:
Mezzofantiesque polyglottery
Who's your favourite polyglot?

...but I thought he deserved a thread of his own.

Quote:

At the age of fourteen Young had learned Greek and Latin and was acquainted with French, Italian, Hebrew, German, Chaldean, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Amharic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

Not bad, not bad indeed.

Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 01 October 2009 at 4:30pm

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