Volney prize
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The Prix Volney is awarded by the Institute of France
Institut de France
The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...

 after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...

 to a work of comparative philology.

The prize was founded by Constantin Volney
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney was a French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician...

 in 1803 and was originally a gold medal worth 1,200 francs.

Recipients include

  • Nicolas Massias (1828)
  • Jean-Pierre Darrigol (1829)
  • Peter Stephen DuPonceau
    Peter Stephen DuPonceau
    Peter Stephen Du Ponceau or DuPonceau, born Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, was a French linguist, philosopher, and jurist...

    , Mémoire sur le systeme grammatical des langues de quelques nations Indiennes de l'Amérique du Nord ( Study of the grammatical systems of some North American Indian languages) (1838)
  • Theodor Benfey
    Theodor Benfey
    This is about the philologist. For the Theodor Benfey who developed a spiral periodic table of the elements in 1964 -- Otto Theodor Benfey -- see Alternative periodic tables....

    , Lexicon of Greek Roots
  • Eugène Burnouf
    Eugène Burnouf
    Eugène Burnouf was an eminent French scholar and orientalist who made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform....

  • Ernest Renan
    Ernest Renan
    Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...

    , General History of Semitic Languages (1847)
  • Albin de Chevallet, Études philologiques et historiques sur l'origine et la formation de la langue française ( Philological and historical study on the origin and formation of the French language) (1850)
  • Count Franz Xaver von Miklosisch, Vergleichende Formenlehre ders slavischen Sprachen ( Teaching comparative forms in Slavic languages) (1857)
  • L.-F. Meunier, ( Compositions containing reflexive verbs in Latin, French, Italian and Spanish) (1873)
  • Robert Caesar Childers
    Robert Caesar Childers
    Robert Caesar Childers was a British Orientalist scholar, compiler of the first Pāli-English dictionary. Childers was the husband of Anna Barton of Ireland...

     A Dictionary of the Pali Language (1876)
  • Gustave Guillaume
    Gustave Guillaume
    Gustave Guillaume , is a French linguist, philologist and Volney Prize laureate.Guillaume developed an original theory ofhuman language little known in the English speaking world but important in the French-speaking world, particularly in Quebec...

    , Le problème de l'article et sa solution dans la langue française ( Articles and their usage in the French language) (1917)
  • Antoine Grégoire, L'apprentissage du langage ( Language training)
  • Claude Hagège
    Claude Hagège
    Claude Hagège is a French linguist.He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988.- Publications :* La Langue mbum de nganha cameroun - phonologie - grammaire, Klincksieck, 1970...

    (1981)
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