Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding

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Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding (born September 18, 1843 in Rathenow ; † August 29, 1928 ) was a German stenographer . In 1874, together with the teacher Adolf Dreinhöfer, he founded the Stolzescher Stenographenvereine. He actively pursued the development of the Stolze-Schrey system and tried to mediate between the various shorthand schools. He was decisively involved in the further development of shorthand and was successively a member of various shorthand organizations. A number of publications were on shorthand; he made particular efforts to the biography and work of Wilhelm Stolzes .

Life

Kaeding attended high school through to secondary school and did military service. Because of the early death of his father, he was not allowed to study. In 1868 he moved to Berlin, where he worked for the Reichsbank from 1873 (1882 calculator, 1895 chief calculator, 1899 accountant, 1910 secret accountant).

Life's work

Out of his work for shorthand a work grew that found resonance far beyond this framework. On the Proud Day in September 1891 in Berlin, he applied to perform extensive statistical surveys for the German, as it appeared the previously available statistics insufficient to secure data to improve stenography ( shorthand to get). The application was accepted. Based on preliminary research, the company aimed to collect 20,000,000 syllables or almost 11,000,000 words. It was about the determination of the frequency of words, syllables and sounds in German.

The survey, which was carried out with the participation of a large number of employees in over 100 counting stations in the German Reich by evaluating around 300 fiction and other works - 665 people were involved in the first phase alone - was extracted in the seminal and important work Frequency Dictionary of the German Language published under the editorship of Kaeding (1897/98); the complete documents were given to the Royal Library. Ortmann (1978) found it in the German State Library in East Berlin.

The complex undertaking of the frequency dictionary / frequency dictionary , which Kaeding suggested and finally completed through publication, has found a diverse response in linguistics , especially in quantitative linguistics , and has stimulated similar undertakings. As successors who have taken up and continued his work, Helmut Meier with his main work Deutsche Sprachstatistik and Wolf Dieter Ortmann (1975ff.) Should be mentioned in German linguistics .

Works

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding [Hrsg.]: Frequency dictionary of the German language. Established by a working committee of the German stenography systems. First part: word and syllable counts. Second part: letter counts. Self-published by the editor, Steglitz near Berlin: 1897/98. Partial print in: Supplement to basic studies in cybernetics and humanities. Vol. 4/1963.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding: The frequency dictionary and the fluency examinations. In: Magazin für Stenographie XX, 1899, pp. 83-87, 90-94, 115-119, 129-133, 153-158.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding: Wilhelm Stolze, his life and work . 18 vols. In 1. Verlag für Stenographie, Magdeburg 1922.

Biographical information on Kaeding

  • Oscar Böer: Our Kaeding . In: Der Deutsche Stenograph XIII, 1913, pp. 295–298.
  • Rudolf Bonnet: Men of Shorthand. 572 Outlines of the lives of pioneers and leaders of the shorthand movement. Winklers Verlag (Brothers Grimm), Darmstadt 1935.
  • Hans Lambrich & Aloys Kennerknecht (1962). Development history of the German shorthand. Winklers Verlag - Brothers Grimm, Darmstadt 1962, p. 248, portrait p. 23.
  • Obituary [on FW Kaeding]. In: Der Deutsche Stenograph 28, 1928, p. 129.
  • Board member FW Kaeding . In: Der Deutsche Stenograph 8, 1908, pp. 412–413.
  • L. Schneider & G. Blauert, G. [Hrsg.]: History of the German shorthand . Heckners Verlag, Wolfenbüttel: 1936, p. 150.

Further literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best : Quantitative Linguistics: An Approach. 3rd, heavily revised and expanded edition. Peust & Gutschmidt, Göttingen 2006, p. 41. ISBN 3-933043-17-4 (Adaptation of the Hyperpoisson distribution to the word length frequencies in Kaeding's frequency dictionary of the German language. )
  • Karl-Heinz Best: Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding (1843-1928). In: Glottometrics 18, 2009, pp. 81–87 (PDF full text ). (Reprinted in: Karl-Heinz Best (Ed.): Studies on the History of Quantitative Linguistics. Volume 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, pages 78-85. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .)
  • Reinhard Köhler , Gabriel Altmann , Rajmund G. Piotrowski (eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005. ISBN 3-11-015578-8 (According to Kaeding's importance for quantitative linguistics, the book contains a whole series of references, easily accessible via the index.)
  • Helmut Meier : German language statistics . 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. Olms, Hildesheim 1967, 1978, ISBN 3-487-00735-5 (1st edition 1964)
  • Wolf Dieter Ortmann: High-frequency German word forms I. 7995 Word forms of the KAEDING count, computer-sorted in alphabetical and reverse order, according to frequency and noun types. Published by the Goethe Institute, Research Center for Scientific Didactics, Phonothek project. Goethe-Institut, Munich: 1975. (This is the first of a whole series of volumes in which Ortmann evaluates Kaeding's frequency dictionary of the German language .)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Aichele: Quantitative Linguistics in Germany and Austria . In: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann, Rajmund G. Piotrowski (eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 16-23; Note p. 16. ISBN 3-11-015578-8
  2. ↑ Wolf Dieter Ortmann: High-frequency German word forms IV. 7695/9566 word forms of the KAEDING count, computer-sorted according to text type distribution. Published by the Goethe Institute, Research Center for Scientific Didactics, Phonothek project. Goethe-Institut, Munich: 1978.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaeding, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stenographer and author, employee of the Reichsbank
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1928