lorenzo hervs y panduro

Lorenzo Hervs y Panduro was a Spanish Jesuit and famous philologist; born at Horcajo, 1 May, 1735; died at Rome, 24 August, 1809. Having entered the Jesuit order at Madrid, he studied at Alcal de Henares, devoting himself with special zeal to architecture and linguistics. For a time he taught at the royal seminary in Madrid and at the Jesuit college of Murcia; then he went to the Americas as a missionary and remained there until 1767, when in connection with the abolition of the Jesuits the establishments of the Society were taken away from the order. Hervs now returned to Europe, taking up residence first at Cesena, Italy, then in 1784 at Rome. In 1799 he went back to his native land, but four years later left Spain and lived in Rome for the remainder of his life. He was held in high honour; Pope Pius VII made him prefect of the Quirinal library, and he was a member of several learned academies. In Italy he had a chance to meet many Jesuits who had flocked thither from all parts of the world after the suppression of the order. He availed himself diligently of the exceptional opportunity thus afforded him of gaining information about remote and unknown idioms that could not be studied from literary remains. The results of his studies he laid down in a number of works, first in Italian, and subsequently translated into Spanish. The greatest work of Hervs is the huge treatise on cosmography, "Idea dell' Universo" (Cesena, 1178-87, in 21 vols. in 4to). It consists of several parts, almost all of which were translated into Spanish and appeared as separate works. Of these the most important, which had appeared separately in Italian in 1784, is entitled "Catlogo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas, y numeracin divisin y clase de stas segn la diversitad de sus idiomas y dialectos" (Madrid, 1800-5 6 vols.). Here Hervs attempts to investigate the origin and ethnological relationship of different nations on the basis of language. The main object of the book, therefore, is not really philological. Vol. I treats of American races and idioms; vol. II of those islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the remaining volumes, devoted to the European languages, are inferior in value to the first two. The American dialects are certainly better described and classified than they had been before; the existence of a Malay and Polynesian speech-family is established. For determining affinity in languages similarity in grammar is emphasized as against mere resemblance in vocabulary. While there were gross errors and defects in the work, it is conceded that it presented its materials with scholarly accuracy and thus proved useful to later investigators. Other parts of the work to appear separately in Italian and later in Spanish were "Virilit dell' Uomo" (4 vols., 1779-80); "Vecchiaja e morte dell' Uomo" (1780); Viaggio estatico al Mondo planetario" (1780); "Storia della Terra" (1781-83, 6 vols.); "Origine, formazione, mecanismo ed armonia degl' Idiomi" (1785); "Vocabolario, Poliglotto, con prolegomeni sopra pi de CL lingue" (1787); "Saggio practicco delle Lingue con prolegomeni e una raccolta di orazioni dominicali in pi di trecento lingue e dialetti" (1787). Hervs also wrote a number of educational works for deaf-mutes, the most notable being "La escuela espaola de sordo-mudos arte para ensearles escribir y hablar el idioma espaol (Madrid, 1795), and other works of miscellaneous character, of which we mention "Descripcin de los archivos de la corona de Aragn y Barcelona", etc. (Cartagena, 1801). He also left a number of works that have not been edited: "Historia de la Escritura"; "Paleografa universal"; "Moral de Confucio"; "Historia de als primeras colonias de Amrica"; "El hombre vuelto la religin", as well as tracts of a controversial or theolgical nature.

Text from The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910; update or modify as appropriate Hervas y Panduro, Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, Lorenzo

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