Johann Hinrich Röding

Johann Hinrich Röding (born May 1, 1763 in Buxtehude , † April 22, 1815 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and lexicographer .

Life

Röding was a son of Pastor Hinrich Lucas Röding and Anna Margaretha, geb. Martens. After his school education in Buxtehude he received a commercial training in Hamburg and finally opened his own small shop for tea near the port of Hamburg , which he ran alone. In direct contact with seafarers from all over the world, Röding worked for years on a maritime lexicon, despite his modest living conditions . His General Dictionary of the Navy in all European maritime languages together with complete explanations was published from 1793 to 1798 by Philipp Andreas Nemnich's publishing house . The work, which will appear in deliveries, comprised three volumes of text and a table volume with a total of almost 2000 pages.

In addition to a foreword, a list of subscribers and a more than 250-page bibliography of seafaring-related literature from 1484 to 1793 with an index of authors and subjects, the first volume contains the keywords A – K, Volume 2 the keywords L – Z. Volume 3, with indices for all keywords in the languages Dutch, Danish, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, functions as a multilingual maritime dictionary; a planned addition in Russian, which was to be promoted by Tsarina Catherine the Great , probably no longer came about due to the death of the ruler. Volume 4 contains more than 800 illustrations on 115 copper plates.

Of a planned, comprehensive and greatly expanded revision, only the Spanish-English dictionary was published in the year of Röding's death.

Röding's work was the first comprehensive maritime lexicon in the German-speaking area. The sometimes very detailed explanations of the construction, rigging , navigation and navigation of sailing ships are of historical value to this day. The Brothers Grimm, among others, used the marine vocabulary of the “General Dictionary” for their German dictionary .

Röding was also known as a talented miniature painter and piano player. With his wife Ilsa Maria Röding, geb. Wagner (1779–1857), he had nine children. The Rödingweg in Buxtehude was named after him.

Johann Hinrich Röding is occasionally confused with the Hamburg writer and teacher Johann Heinrich Röding .

plant

General naval dictionary in all European nautical languages with complete explanations. Nemnich, Hamburg (printed by Conrad Müller)
The Universal Marine Dictionary Spanish and English. Containing all the Spanish technical terms and phrases ... Nemnich, Hamburg; Boosey, London; Constable, Edinburgh, 1815

literature

Friedrich von Matthisson : Recollections , Vol. 1 (IX. Patriotic Visits), Orell Füssli & Co., Zurich 1810, pp. 317–318 ( limited preview in Google book search)
3241. Röding (Joh Hinrich II) . In: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Vol. 6, Hamburg 1873, pp. 332–333 ( digitized version at the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
Lothar Eich: Epilogue to the reprint edition of the General Dictionary of the Marine Tafelband, Leipzig 1987, Hamburg 1987
Martin Jank: Rödings Dictionary of the Navy; From Buxtehude for all of the world , in: General Household Calendar, 141st year, Krause newspaper publisher, 1989
Mete Canitez: Famous work from Buxtehude, Johann Hinrich Röding's maritime classic , in: Buxtehuder Tageblatt , November 27, 2003
Magdalena Lisiecka-Czop: When sailors' language was still romantic - nautical vocabulary of the 18th century in the mirror of the General Dictionary of the Navy (1793–1798) by Johann Hinrich Röding, in: Studia Maritima z. XXIII, 2010, (Polish)
Bernd Utermöhlen: Johann Hinrich Röding, a dictionary author from Buxtehude , in: Languages in subject and job-related contexts. Theoretical and practical considerations, ed. by Magdalena Lisiecka-Czop, Katarzyna Sztandarska and Bernd Utermöhlen. Hamburg 2018, pp. 11–30.

Individual evidence

↑ Detailed edition plan in the review of the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1815, vol. 2, no. 133, p. 61f. ( Digitized at the Thuringian State and University Library Jena)

personal data
SURNAME	Röding, Johann Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German book author and tea dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buxtehude
DATE OF DEATH	April 22, 1815
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Detailed edition plan in the review of the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1815, vol. 2, no. 133, p. 61f. ( Digitized at the Thuringian State and University Library Jena)