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Encyclopedia > Volney prize

The Volney Prize (French language: Prix Volney) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres to a work of comparative philology.


The prize was founded by Constantin Volney in 1803 and originally totalled $240.


Recipients include

  • Nicolas Massias (1828)
  • Jean-Pierre Darrigol (1829)
  • Peter Stephen Duponceau, Mémoire sur le systeme grammatical des langues de quelques nations Indiennes de l'Amérique du Nord (1838)
  • Theodor Benfey, Lexicon of Greek Roots
  • Eugène Burnouf
  • Ernest Renan, General History of Semitic Languages (1847)
  • Albin de Chevallet, Études philologiques et historiques sur l'origine et la formation de la langue française (1850)
  • Count Franz Xaver von Miklosisch, Vergleichende Formenlehre ders slavischen Sprachen (1857)
  • L.-F. Meunier, Les Composés qui contiennent un verbe à un mode personnel en latin, en français, en italien et en espagnol (1873)
  • Robert Caesar Childers A Dictionary of the Pali Language (1876)
  • Gustave Guillaume, Le problème de l'article et sa solution dans la langue française (1917)
  • Antoine Grégoire, L'apprentissage du langage
  • Claude Hagège (1981)


 

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