| LC control no. | n 86013616 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 |
| Variant(s) | Ponceau, Peter Stephen Du, 1760-1844 Duponceau, Peter S. (Peter Stephen), 1760-1844 Duponceau. Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 DuPonceau, Pierre Étienne, 1760-1844 |
| Associated place | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Birth date | 17600603 |
| Death date | 18440402 |
| Place of birth | Isle de Rhe, France |
| Place of death | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Field of activity | Law Linguistics Native American languages Philosophy |
| Affiliation | American Philosophical Society United States. Supreme Court Law Academy of Philadelphia |
| Profession or occupation | Philosopher Linguist Jurist |
| Found in | Bijnkershoek, C. A treatise on the law of war, 1810: t.p. (Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, counsellor at law in the Supreme Ct. of the U.S.) LC in OCLC, 3-10-87 (hdg.: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844) His An address delivered at the opening of the Law Academy of Philadelphia ... 1821?: p. 211 (Peter S. Duponceau, LL.D., provost of the academy) Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Townsend, John Kirk. Vocabularies of some of the Indian tribes...1835 (Peter Stephen Duponceau; inscribed to) WwW in Am. (DuPonceau, Pierre Étinne [sic] (known in the U.S. as DuPonceau, Peter Stephen); b. Isle de Rhe, France, June 3, 1760; d. Apr. 2, 1844) Wikipedia, viewed January 25, 2013 (Peter Stephen Du Ponceau or DuPonceau, born Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, (June 3, 1760, Saint-Martin-de-Ré, France--April 1, 1844, Philadelphia); emigrated to America in 1777; was a linguist, philosopher, and jurist; spent the majority of his life in Pennsylvania; became famous in the field of linguistics for his analysis of Indigenous languages of the Americas.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stephen_Du_Ponceau> |
| Associated language | eng |
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