Dominique Mozin

Dominique-Joseph Mozin (born February 5, 1771 in Lorraine , † 1840 ) was an exiled French priest, lexicographer and Romanist .

life and work

Abbé Mozin fled into exile in Germany before the French Revolution . The publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta commissioned him in Stuttgart with didactic and lexicographical work that appeared from 1802, including a grammar and an important German-French, French-German dictionary, which was based on the predecessor by Christian Friedrich Schwan and was only supported by the Sachs / Villatte was overtaken.

Works

German-French and French-German concise dictionaries , Stuttgart 1876 (title page)

• French language teaching , Tübingen 1802; 11th edition, 1840
• (with Heinrich Ferdinand Eisenbach ) Small, German-French and French-German from the complete pocket dictionary Mozin's… edited hand dictionary = Petit dictionnaire portatif allemand-français et français-allemand , extrait du dictionnaire de poche complet de l'Abbé Mozin . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1828
• (with Christian Gottlieb Hölder and Johann Theophil Biber) New complete dictionary of the German and French language = Nouveau dictionnaire complet à l'usage des Allemands et des Français , 4 vols., Stuttgart / Tübingen 1811–1813, 2nd edition, 1823–1828 ; 3rd edition, edited by Adolphe Peschier , 5 vols., 1842–1859; 4th edition, 5 vols., 1863

literature

• Franz Josef Hausmann: Christian Friedrich Schwan and his German-French, French-German dictionary (Mannheim / Ludwigsburg / Tübingen / Offenb. / Frankf. 1782–1811). In: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum u. a., Tübingen 1994, pp. 801–817 (here 809)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dominique Mozin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)