John Minsheu

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John Minsheu (* 1560 in London ; † 1627 ibid) was a British linguist , English scholar , Romance scholar , Hispanist and lexicographer .

Life

Minsheu (or Minshew) was a language teacher in London. He emerged as the editor of Richard Perceval's grammar and dictionary . His most important achievement is the eleven-language dictionary Ductor in Linguas from 1617.

Works

  • A Dictionarie in Spanish and English , first published by R. Percivale. Now enlarged by J. Minsheu. Hereunto is annexed an ample English Dictionarie, with the Spanish words adjoyned, London 1599, 1623; A dictionarie in Spanish and English (London 1599) . Estudio preliminar de Gloria Guerrero Ramos y Fernando Pérez Lagos, Málaga 2000
  • A Spanish Grammar , first collected by R. Percivale, now augmented by J. Minsheu. Hereunto are annexed Speeches, Phrases, and Proverbes, etc. (Pleasant Dialogues in Spanish and English, etc.), London 1599, 1623
  • Ἡγεμων εἰς τας Γλωσσας, id est, Ductor in Linguas. The Guide into Tongues . Cum illarum harmonia, et etymologiis, Originationibus, Rationibus, et Derivationibus, in omnibus his undecim linguis, viz. 1. Anglica, 2. Cambro-Britanica, 3. Belgica, 4. Germanica, 5. Gallica, 6. Italica, 7. Hispanica, 8. Lusitanica seu Portugallica, 9. Latina, 10. Graeca, 11. Hebræa, London 1617 , Reprinted New York 1978
  • Vocabularium Hispanico-Latinum et Anglicum copiosissimum, etc. A most copious Spanish Dictionarie, with Latine and English, (and sometime other languages) and enlarged with divers thousands of Words, London 1617
  • Pleasant and delightfull dialogues in Spanish and English , London 1623; ed. by Jesús Antonio Cid, Madrid 2001, Alcalá de Henares 2002

literature

  • Daniel W. Noland, John Minsheu's "Ductor in linguas" and the beginning of English historical lexicography , Ann Arbor 1989 (PhD Austin, Texas, 1987)
  • Daniel W. Noland, The Sources and Methods of John Minsheu's A Dictionary of Spanish and English (1599), in: Dictionaries. Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 11, 1989, pp. 41-52
  • Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, 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. 2949-2956
  • Vivian Salmon, Some Notes on the Life and Work of John Minsheu (1560-1627), in: Historiographia Linguistica 30, 2003, pp. 259-272
  • William Arthur Jobson Archbold: Minsheu, John , in: Dictionary of National Biography , 1885-1900, Volume 38, pp. 47-48

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personal data
SURNAME Minheu, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minshew, John; Minshaeus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British linguist, English scholar, Romance scholar, Hispanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1627
Place of death London