Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt

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Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt , also Jakob (* 1799 in Lübeck ; † January 31, 1872 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist and lexicographer .

Life

Kaltschmidt, whose father Johann Christoph Kaltschmidt was a brewer and organ and piano builder in the Beckergrube in Lübeck, visited the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1822 . From the summer semester of 1822 he studied at the Universities of Rostock and Leipzig , first Protestant theology , then philology , and was awarded a Dr. Phil. PhD. From 1824 to 1831 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Chur .

In 1831 he came back to Leipzig and began the preparatory work for the publication of a concise, complete root and synonym dictionary of the German language from all its dialects and with all its foreign words . A first edition appeared in 1834 by Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz .

In 1835 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig and worked briefly as a private lecturer , then as a language teacher and private scholar .

Works

  • Outline of the science of language: an experiment. Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1833
  • Concise, complete genealogical and related general dictionary of the German language from all its dialects and with all foreign words: a treasure trove of the mother tongue for all classes of the German people. Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1834
2nd edition Nördlingen 1850
4th edition Nördlingen 1854 ( digitized version , Princeton University )
5th edition Nördlingen 1865
  • De duabus rebus quae in arte grammatica negliguntur et de via ac ratione linguam latinam tirones docendi. Leipzig 1835 (habilitation)
  • New complete dictionary of French and German: with an appendix of commercial idioms. 2 volumes, Leipzig / Geneva: Tauchnitz 1837
2nd edition Leipzig: Holtze 1892 (Karl Tauchnitz'sche stereotype editions)
  • New and complete dictionary of the English and German languages. In addition to a brief outline of the English and German language teaching. Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1837
  • Linguistic comparative dictionary of the German language: in which the High German root words in the Germanic, Romance and many other European and Asian languages, especially in the Sanskrit language, are compiled with their relatives, derived from their roots and explained according to their original meaning, including the derived and the more important compound words are briefly explained; for friends and teachers of the German language. Leipzig 1839
  • The latest and most complete foreign dictionary for the explanation of all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages ​​that occur in the arts and sciences, in trade and commerce, together with an appendix of proper names.
1st edition Leipzig: Brockhaus 1843 ( digitized version )
4th edition Leipzig: Brockhaus 1856
5th edition Leipzig: Brockhaus 1860
  • General foreign dictionary with an explanation of the foreign words and expressions in the landscape that occur in the German language, including their origin. Stereotype edition, 2nd copy - Nördlingen: Beck 1852
  • Triglotte classique: commencement de la Panglotte; dictionnaire étymologique par familles de mots du Français, Latin, Grec, et mots avancés en sanscrit et en Chinois; B. partie labiale hypologique, consonne labiale, chose mue en bas, avec index frana̧is, latin, grec. Versailles 1859
  • Complete pocket dictionary of German written and colloquial language: in addition to the most important foreign words, with an indication of the basic meaning of the root words and a table of the language roots. Stereotype edition Leipzig: Weber 1861
  • Alphabet universal arrangé d'après les organes de la bouche. Versailles: Mayet 1863

literature

  • New yearbooks for philology and education . 5th year, 13th volume. Leipzig 1835. p. 363

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized , No. 131 and Bernhard Eschenburg: Das Katharineum zu Lübeck. Hottinger, Südende-Berlin 1911 (Scholae 3), p. 10; deviating GND: 1800
  2. ↑ Entry in address book 1798 online
  3. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 131
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ New Year Books for Philology and Education 13, p. 363
personal data
SURNAME Kaltschmidt, Jacob Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaltschmidt, Jakob Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1872
Place of death Leipzig