Editing Louis Lucien Bonaparte (section)

==Career==
A [[philologist]] and briefly a politician, Bonaparte spent most of his early life in Italy. He attended the first ''Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani'', a conference of scholars of natural sciences, at [[Pisa]], and published some early work on scientific subjects in Italy. On 29 June 1840, by his father's death, he inherited various papal titles. His first work on languages, called ''Specimen lexici comparativi'', was published at Florence in 1847.<ref name=bl/> 

He did not go to France until 1848, when he served two one-year terms in the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] as representative for [[Corsica]] (1848) and for the [[Seine (département)|Seine department]] (1849). In 1852, he was appointed as a Senator, but not long after moved to London, where he spent most of the rest of his life.<ref name=bl/> 

He had a printing press in his home printing 10 volumes in 1857  and five in 1858. Being "a passionate collector of bible translations for philological interest," in 1861 he published a [[Galician language|Galician]] and [[Asturian language|Asturian]] translation of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] in London.<ref>{{Citation |last=Kabatek |first=Johannes |title=10 Spoken and Written Language |date=2024-10-21 |work=Manual of Galician Linguistics |page=250 |pages= |editor-last=Sousa |editor-first=Xulio |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110417449-011/html |access-date=2024-10-23 |publisher=De Gruyter |doi=10.1515/9783110417449-011 |isbn=978-3-11-041744-9 |editor2-last=González Seoane |editor2-first=Ernesto}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=El Evangelio segun San Mateo [Texto impreso] / traducido al dialecto asturiano de la version castellana de Torres Felix Amat por un presbítero natural de Asturias ; con la cooperación del Príncipe Luís Luciano Bonaparte |url=http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000290150 |website=Biblioteca Digital Hispánica |language=es}}</ref> In 1866 he was elected member of the [[Athenaeum Club, London|Athenaeum Club]] and at that time  presented the Club with 137 of his publications bound in 24 volumes. <ref>Ehrman, Albert. (1960). "The Private Press and Publishing Activities of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte." ''[[The Book Collector]]'' 9 no.1 (Spring): 31-37.</ref>

He worked on the classification of dialects of the [[Basque language]], and his work is still used. He also worked on [[Cornish language|Cornish]] and denounced [[William Pryce]] for having plagiarized the research of [[Edward Lhuyd]] into Cornish and other [[Celtic languages]].<ref name=bl/> He owned the only surviving copy of ''Athravaeth Gristnogavl'' and gave permission to the Cymmrodorion society to publish a facsimile in 1880.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BONAPARTE, Prince LOUIS-LUCIEN (1813 - 1891). {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-BONA-LOU-1813 |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=biography.wales}}</ref>

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