Ferdinand Schrey

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Ferdinand Schrey (around 1920)

Ferdinand Schrey (born July 19, 1850 in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal ), † October 2, 1938 in Berlin ) is one of the founders of shorthand .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Ehrenbergstrasse 21, Berlin-Zehlendorf

Schrey initially completed an apprenticeship in a bank, but at the same time devoted himself to language studies. After completing his apprenticeship, he took a job as a correspondent for English and French . After participating in the Franco-German War in 1870/1871, he took up a job as a commercial clerk in Barmen . He also became a partner in a button factory.

In 1874 Schrey learned the stenographic system after Franz Xaver Gabelsberger . In 1877 he published the so-called "Solingen Theses". This was to split the Gabelsberger system into a correspondence and a speech. However, he was unable to get his way with this proposal. He therefore developed his own, significantly simplified system. A corresponding textbook was published in 1887. Because it was easy to learn, the system quickly caught on.

In 1885 Schrey took over the agency for the Hammond typewriter and became the company's sole agent . In 1891 he founded his own large typewriter business in Berlin. He later founded a shorthand publishing house. He set up the first training center for shorthand typists. The word "stenographer" was created by him.

Ferdinand Schrey's grave in the Dahlem cemetery

Wilhelm Stolze's system competed with Schrey's system . Unification negotiations took place between the representatives of the systems, as a result of which on August 9, 1897 the Stolze-Schrey unification system was laid down in a system document. The system operates a pure final vocalization . It was widely used, particularly in northern Germany. It is still the leading shorthand system in German-speaking Switzerland today. In Germany and Austria , the German standard shorthand was introduced in 1924 . This represented a compromise between the Stolze-Schrey and Gabelsberger systems.

Schrey is interesting for quantitative linguistics because he presented sound statistics that were extensive for the time before the famous enterprise of Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding (1897/98) .

His grave is in the Berlin Dahlem cemetery .

Honors

In the Wellingdorf district of Kiel , a street was named after Ferdinand Schrey. Ferdinand-Schrey-Strasse was also named after him in Magdeburg . Two neighboring streets (Faulmannstrasse, Gabelsbergerstrasse ) also bear the names of personalities who have made a name for themselves in shorthand.

Works

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best: Ferdinand Schrey (1850–1938). In: Glottometrics 18, 2009, pp. 91-94. (PDF full text )
  • L. Schneider, G. Blauert [Hrsg.]: History of the German shorthand . Wolfenbüttel: Heckners Verlag 1936. (P. 180ff. About Ferdinand Schrey)
  • Ferdinand Schrey: The shorthand drawing material and its use. Lecture at the IV International Stenographers' Day in Berlin, beginning of October 1891. Self-published by F. Schrey, Berlin 1891. (In this lecture he presents sound statistics that a teacher Heinrich Heine from Essen had obtained by evaluating 50,000 syllables of political speeches.)

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personal data
SURNAME Schrey, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor, co-founder of shorthand
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1938
Place of death Berlin