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SANDERS, DANIEL (1819-1896)

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SANDERS, See also:DANIEL (1819-1896) , See also:German lexicographer, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:November 1819 at Altstrelitz in See also:Mecklenburg, of Jewish parentage. He was educated at the " Gymnasium Carolinum " in the neighbouring See also:capital Neustrelitz, and the See also:universities of See also:Berlin and See also:Halle, where he took the degree of See also:doctor philosophiae. From 1842 to 1852 he conducted with success the school at Altstrelitz. In 1852 he subjected See also:Grimm's Deutsches Worterbuch to a rigorous examination, and as a result published his See also:dictionary of the German See also:language, Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache (3 vols., 1859-1865). This was followed by his Erganzungsworterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1878-1885). Among others of his See also:works in the same See also:field are Fremdworterbuch (See also:Leipzig, 1871; 2nd ed., 1891), Worterbuch der Hauptschwierigkeiten in der deutschen Sprache (1872; 22nd ed., 1892) and Lehrbuch der deutschen Sprache See also:fur Schulen (8th ed., 1888). Sanders laid down his views in his Katechismus der deutschen Orthographie (1856; 4th ed., 1878), and was an active member of the orthographical See also:conference in Berlin in 1876. He published a See also:translation in See also:verse of theSong of Songs(1866) , and wrote some poems for the See also:young, Heitere Kinderwelt (1868). In 1887 he founded the Zeitschrift fur See also:die deutsche Sprache, which he conducted almost down to his See also:death at Altstrelitz on the 11th of See also:March 1897. See See also:Friedrich Dusel, Daniel Sanders (1886; 2nd ed., 1890); A. 'Segert-See also:Stein, Daniel Sanders, ein Gedenkbuch (1897).

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