Johann August Lehninger

Johann August Lehninger (* 1730 in Görlitz , † 1786 in Dresden ) was a German Romanist , Italianist, translator and lexicographer.

life and work

Lehninger was secretary of the Saxon State Chancellery in Dresden or (according to other sources) of the General Staff Chancellery of the Saxon Army.

Lehninger provided the Italian-Latin-French dictionary by Annibale Antonini (Paris 1735) with a translation of the Italian definitions and with German (instead of Latin) equivalents and published it (with a German-Italian part) in Leipzig in 1763.

Works

• Nuovo Dizzionario italiano-tedesco, tedesco-italiano del signr. Annibal Antonini , ora migliorato e tradotto in tedesco, da Giovanni Agosto Lehninger. New German-Italian dictionary compiled by Johann August Lehninger, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1763 (1639 + 892 pages)
• (Translator) Johann Ludwig Bianconi, letter about A. Cornelius Celsus to the abbot Hieronymus Tiraboschi , Leipzig 1781
• Description of the Plauischer Grund near Dresden along with a complicated message about the various types of stone, fossils and other peculiarities of the same, Dresden 1781
• Abrégé de la vie des peintres, dont les tableaux composent la Galerie Electorale de Dresden . Avec le détail de tous les tableaux de cette collection & des éclaircissemens historiques sur ces chefs-d'œuvres de la peinture, Dresden 1782
• (Translator) Description de la ville de Dresde , de ce qu'elle contient de plus remarquable et de ses environs, Dresden 1782 (German original: Karl Wilhelm Daßdorf , description of the most excellent peculiarities of the electoral residence city of Dresden and some of the surrounding areas, Dresden 1782)
  • Description de Dresde et environs à l'usage des étrangers , Dresden 1807

literature

• Maria Luisa Bruna, Laurent Bray and Franz Josef Hausmann, 317. The bilingual lexicography German-Italian, Italian-German, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 3013–3019 (here: 3015)