Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Arawak language manuscripts sent to the APS by him include both a grammatical treatise (organized upon the Latin model) ("Grammaticalische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache") and an extensive Arawak-German dictionary ("Aruwakkisch deutsches Wörterbuch, vermehrt 1803").
Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The Arawak language manuscripts sent to the APS by Theodor Schultz include both a grammatical treatise (organized upon the Latin model) and an extensive Arawak-German dictionary.
Provenance
Gift of Theodor Schultz, 1819.
Preferred citation
Cite as: Theodor Schultz, [Name of Manuscript], American Philosophical Society.
Processing information
Recatalogued by rsc, 2002.
Alternate formats available
These materials are also available on microfilm (Film 1349).
Other finding aids
The Schultz manuscripts are indexed in the On-line Guide to American Indian Manuscripts (number 164, 165, 412, and 413).
General physical description
0.3 linear feet
General note
The Grammar was treated by the conservation department in April 1936. Originally bound on two vellum tapes, case-in style, with blue paper sides and white laid paper backbone. The volume was taken apart, pages were resized, flattened, and repaired, stripped and resewn into Kelmscott endpapers. Old boards split and new vellum strips inserted and glued; new vellum backbone slipped under paper sides; back lettered.
Early American History Note
This large volume contains German to Arawak dictionary. Thomas Schulz, a German Moravian missionary to British Guiana, compiled the dictionary in the nineteenth century and sent it to the APS.
Genre(s)
- Dictionaries.
- Language Material
- Native American Materials
Subject(s)
- Arawak language
- Arawak language--Dictionaries--German
- Beyond Early America
- Indians of South America--Languages
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics
- Moravians--Missions
- Native America
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Arawak manuscripts | Request Series | ||
498.3 Sch8. Aruwakkisch Deucthes Wörterbuch | 1803 | 622p. | Request Item |
A dictionary with German equivalents and examples, as well as alphabetical Arawak index. General physical description: 622p. | |||
498.3 Sch8g. Grammatische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache | 1803 | 173p. | Request Item |
A grammatical treatise based upon a Latin model, with Latin terms used throughout, though most of the text is German General physical description: 173p. | |||