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ADELUNG, JOHANN CHRISTOPH (1732-1806)

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ADELUNG, JOHANN CHRISTOPH (1732-1806) , See also:German grammarian and philologist, was See also:born at Spantekow, in See also:Pomerania, on the 8th of See also:August 1732, and educated at the public See also:schools of See also:Anklam and Klosterbergen, and the university of See also:Halle. In 1759 he was appointed See also:professor at the gymnasium of See also:Erfurt, but relinquished this situation two years later and went to reside in a private capacity at See also:Leipzig, where he devoted him-self to philological researches. In 1787 he received the See also:appointment of See also:principal librarian to the elector of See also:Saxony at See also:Dresden, where he continued to reside until his See also:death on the loth of See also:September 1806. The writings of Adelung are very voluminous, and there is not one of them, perhaps, which does not exhibit some proofs of the See also:genius, See also:industry and erudition of the author. By means of his excellent gramplars, See also:dictionary and various See also:works on German See also:style, he contributed greatly towards rectifying the See also:orthography, refining the See also:idiom and fixing the See also:standard of his native See also:tongue. His German dictionary—Grammatisch-kritisches W Oster-bud: der hochdeutschen Mundart (1774–1786)-bears See also:witness to the patient spirit of investigation which Adelung possessed in so remarkable a degree, and to his intimate knowledge of the See also:history of the different dialects on which See also:modern German is based. No See also:man before See also:Jakob See also:Grimm (q.v.) did so much for the See also:language of See also:Germany. Shortly before his death he issued Mithridates, See also:oder aligemeine Sprachenkunde (1806). The hint of this ,See also:work appears to have been taken from a publication, with a similar See also:title, published by Konrad von See also:Gesner (151&-156.5) in 1555; but the See also:plan of Adelung is much more extensive. Unfortunately he did not live to finish what he had undertaken. The first See also:volume, which contains the See also:Asiatic See also:languages, was published immediately after his death; the other two were issued under the superintendence of Johann Severin Vater (1771–1826). Of the very numerous works by Adelung the following may be noted: Directorium diplomaticum (See also:Meissen, 1802); Deutsche Sprachlehre fib- Schulen (See also:Berlin, 1781), and the periodical, Magazin See also:fur See also:die deutsche Sprache (Leipzig, 1782–1784).

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