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Charles du Fresne Lord du Cange

 
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(born Dec. 18, 1610, Amiens, France — died Oct. 23, 1688, , Paris) French scholar. Du Cange's most important works, A Glossary for Writers of Middle and Low Latin (1678) and A Glossary for Writers of Middle and Low Greek (1688), made use of his encyclopaedic knowledge not only of languages but of history, law, archaeology, and geography. His historical approach and effort to distinguish medieval vocabularies from their classical counterparts inspired later scholars to examine the development of language from a historical perspective. Frequently reedited, his dictionaries retained their usefulness through the 20th century.

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Du Cange, Charles du Fresne, seigneur (1610-88). Eminent French scholar, author of two indispensable dictionaries of medieval Latin and Greek [see Middle Ages, 2] and of pioneering studies of Byzantine history (Histoire de Constantinople sous les empereurs français, 1657).

 
 

 

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