Author: FABRICIUS, OTHO: Title: Fors¿g til en forbedret Gronlandskt Grammatica. Andet Oplag. Kiobenhavn, C.F. Schubart, 1801.
Description: . Pp. viii, 9-388. Including four folding tables (pp.209-12). Rear endpaper missing. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, worn, top of spine chipped. Occasionally some light browning to the paper. Second edition of this scarce Greenland grammar. Otho Fabricius was a Danish missionary who lived in the colony of Fredrikshaab in Greenland between 1768 and 1773. He was a student of another renowned missionary Paul Egede. Fabricius' grammar was first published in 1791 but due to a fire in Copenhagen in 1795 most copies of that edition were lost. Lauridsen, Bibl. Groenlandica 202:25. Pilling, Bibl. of the Eskimo language, p. 32. Vater p. 114.
Keywords: Europe, greenland, inuit, eskimo, language, langue, linguistic, grammar, europe, european,
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