Johann Christoph Adelung

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Johann Christoph Adelung (August 8th 1732 - September 10th 1806) is a librarian and German Philologue, author of the first exhaustive German dictionary.

Born in 1732, in Poméranie, he was initially professor with the gymnasium of Erfurt (1759), was fixed then at Leipzig (1761), and became in 1787 librarian of the voter of Dresden, functions which he fills until his death.

Its principal works are:

  1. grammatical and critical Dictionary of the German language (5 vol. in-4 Leipzig, 1774 - 1786, reprinted with corrections and additions in 4 volumes, Leipzig, 1793 - 1801;
  2. Glossarium morning AD scriptores mediæ and inftmm latinitatis (6 volumes in-8, Market, 1772), shortened work of Charles of Fresne, sior of Cange;
  3. History of the human madnesses , Leipszig, 1785;
  4. Table of all sciences, arts and trades, etc (4 parts, Leipzig, 1778 - 1788), encyclopedia;
  5. History of civilization , Leipzig, 1782 - 1788;
  6. History of philosophy , 3 volumes, in-8. Leipzig, 1786;
  7. oldest history of Teutons , in-8, Leipzig, 1806;
  8. Mithridates, or universal Table of the languages, with the Lord's Prayer in 500 languages , Berlin, 1806, in-8.

It could not complete this last work, that of all its work which the most contributed to make known it out of its country: it published only the 1st volume of it; two others appeared since by the care of Johann Severin Vater, 1809 and 1817.

He is the uncle of Frederic Adelung.

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