Johann Gottfried Haas

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Johann Gottfried Haas (* 1737 in Gelenau ; † April 17, 1815 in Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) ) was a German classical philologist, Hebraist , Romanist , grammarian and lexicographer .

life and work

Haas, the son of a master mason who fell victim to a violent crime, grew up in poverty, attended the city school in Chemnitz and studied at the University of Leipzig . Then he was private tutor in Grünhain , vice-principal in Marienberg and from 1775 in the same function at the city school of Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains . Among his numerous school publications, introductions to Hebrew and extensive bilingual dictionaries with Latin, Greek and French stand out. His French dictionary crossed the entire 19th century under the pseudonym "MA Thibaut" - probably chosen by the publisher after his death - and had 150 editions. Also noteworthy is the functionalization of French learning published in 1794 for learning Italian based on it.

Fonts (selection)

Latin

  • Brief and easy instruction on the Latin language , Leipzig 1781
  • Complete Latin-German and German-Latin concise dictionary , 2 volumes, Ronneburg / Leipzig / Zwickau 1804; Ronneburg / Leipzig / Altenburg 1808; Zwickau 1811

Greek

  • Greek grammar in a nutshell , Leipzig 1780, 1801
  • Complete Greek-German dictionary , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1796–1801

Hebrew

  • Brief and comprehensible instructions on the Hebrew language for beginners , Leipzig 1788,
    • Instruction to study the Hebrew language without oral lessons , Leipzig 1800
  • Hebrew Speccius , Leipzig 1801 (Christoph Speccius, 1585–1639)

Romance Studies

  • New German and French dictionary for young people conveniently set up for use. Dictionnaire des langues françoise et allemande , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1786–1788
    • Nouveau Dictionnaire manuel François-Allemand et Allemand-François etc. Or: New and complete French-German and Teutsch-French concise dictionary , Leipzig 1802, 1805–1806; from 1821 under the name MA Thibaut
    • (posthumously) MA Thibaut, Dictionnaire de Poche. Complete German-French and French-German pocket dictionaries , Leipzig 1821, 1825; 150th edition, Braunschweig 1913 (authors were among others Johann Sporschil, FA Weber, Georg Büchmann , Heinrich Wüllenweber, Otto EA Dickmann, Otto Kabisch)
  • Short and comprehensible instructions in the French language for teachers and learners, along with a small Italian grammar for those who have already mastered the French language , Leipzig 1794

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personal data
SURNAME Haas, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thibaut, MA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, Hebraist, Romanist, grammarian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelenau / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1815
Place of death Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)