Printing theses
Buchdruckerduden is the abbreviation for Konrad Duden's spelling of the German language book printing companies , published in 1903 in Leipzig and Vienna.
Although Duden's Orthographic Dictionary in Leipzig and Vienna had appeared in 1902 a year earlier , he had been persuaded to write a second work in parallel, which was only intended for book printers and which should not contain any options between different spellings of a word, as is still right in the Orthographic Dictionary were numerous. The printers wanted to find only one spelling for each word in “their” Duden . They found it unreasonable to have to decide too often between two or even three permissible spellings of words, and they asked for help. At a printer's conference in Konstanz in June 1902, they "very openly expressed their displeasure with the increased uncertainty in spelling due to the new rule books".
In 1903, Dudens Buchdruckerduden appeared with exactly one spelling for each word and the subtitle At the suggestion and with the assistance of the German Book Printing Association, the Reich Association of Austrian Book Printing Owners and the Swiss Association of Book Printing Owners . With the publication of Buchdruckerdudens, the efforts of the Orthographic Conference of 1901 to standardize German spelling were partially fulfilled.
The book had 341 pages in the 1st edition and 393 pages in the 2nd edition, which appeared in 1907. A third edition was no longer published, but in 1915 the “normal” Duden and the Buchdruckerduden were merged in a single edition with the title Duden, Spelling of the German Language and Foreign Words and published as the 9th edition with the subtitle of Buchdruckerdudens. This edition largely dispensed with the possibility of choosing between two spellings, in line with the approach of book printing studies. Konrad Duden himself worked on the standard edition, but did not live to see it appear in 1915.
literature
- Konrad Duden: Spelling of the German language book printers. Leipzig and Vienna 1903, foreword.
- Konrad Duden: Spelling of the German language book printers. Leipzig and Vienna 1907, foreword.
- Heinz Sarkowski : The Bibliographical Institute. Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1976, p. 251.
- J. Ernst Wülfing, Alfred C. Schmidt: Duden, spelling of the German language and foreign words. Leipzig and Vienna 1915, foreword.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Duden: Spelling of the book printing works in the German language . 1903, foreword: page III .