Christian Friedrich Schrader

Christian Friedrich Schrader (born March 14, 1739 in Derenburg ; † June 9, 1816 in Burg ) was a German botanist, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Schrader attended the Latin school in Halle from 1757 and graduated in 1761 from studying Protestant theology at the University of Halle with a master's degree. From 1762 to 1769 he was an informator (teacher) and from 1769 to 1784 inspector at the Pedagogy of the Francke Foundations in the orphanage in Halle. Then he went to Burg as pastor, later superintendent.

In 1772, Schrader published the plant population of the educational botanical garden with 1139 species. Another important achievement is his bilingual French-German and German-French dictionary (3 volumes, 1771 to 1784), which was published on 3,000 pages with tightly printed pages.

Works

• Nouvel et complet dictionnaire étymologique, grammatical et critique de la langue françoise ancienne et moderne , Halle an der Saale 1771, 1284 pages (based on the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française , 4th edition, 1762)
  • Complete German and French dictionary . A-H, I-Z. 2 vols., Halle an der Saale 1781–1784, 1710 pages (based on the dictionary by Johann Christoph Adelung ; dedication to Karl Abraham von Zedlitz ; collaboration with Elias Caspar Reichard and Léopold Frédéric Blanchot, 1734–1796)
• Index Plantarum Horti Botanici Pædagogii Regii Glauchensis , 1772
• Genera plantarum selecta in usum tironum botanophilorum methodo tabellari adornavit , 1780
• (Translator) Gilbert Burnet, Memoirs, Concerning the Life of Johann Wilmot Counts of Rochester and the accompanying documents, further translated from the French translation by Jean-Alphonse Rosset de Rochefort (1709–1766), Halle an der Saale 1775 (see also: Report Vom Life and end of the world-confessed atheist, converted by divine grace on the bed of death, Count Johns of Rochester, Halle an der Saale 1698)
• (Contributor) Mixed contributions to promote closer insight into the entire spirit realm to reduce and eradicate unbelief and superstition . As a continuation of D. David Eberhard Haubers Magischen Bibliotheck edited by Elias Caspar Reichard . First volume in IV. Pieces, Helmstedt 1781

literature

• Fritz Kümmel and Cornelia Jäger, On the history of the botanical garden of the Pedagogy of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale), in: Schlechtendalia 24, 2012, pp. 41–52 (here: 48–49)

Web links

• http://192.124.243.55/cgi-bin/gkdb.pl?x=u&t_show=x&wertreg=PER&wert=schrader%2C+christian+friedrich++-+BIOGRAFIE&reccheck=.52669 (Biographical information in the archive of the Francke Foundations)
• http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=1074 (Schrader entry in the Harvard Index of Botanists)
• http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00095639/ALZ_1785_Bd3u4_377.tif (review of the dictionary in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung)