Latin-German and German-Latin concise dictionary

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Karl Ernst Georges, shaped the Latin-German and German-Latin concise dictionaries in the second third of the 19th century.

The Latin-German and German-Latin Concise Dictionary is a Latin - dictionary , the first from 1826 to 1862 Georg Heinrich Lünemann and then by Karl Ernst Georges has been processed. It appeared - with a slightly different title - in new editions, most recently in 2013.

In 1964 the Neue Deutsche Biographie referred to it as “still [...] an indispensable standard work to this day”.

history

overview

The dictionary first appeared in 1826 (for the history see: Latin-German and German-Latin hand lexicon - note the terminological nuance “hand lexicon” versus “hand dictionary”!).

After 1862 the title was preceded by the adjective detailed , but Georges remained the editor and the number of editions continued.

Another turning point in the history of the dictionary came with the death of Karl Ernst Georges (1895). It then took almost a quarter of a century from the seventh edition (under the aegis of Georges) 1879–1882 until the younger of his two sons, Heinrich Georges , brought out an eighth edition in 1913 - albeit exclusively of the Latin-German part - with which the old title now became obsolete. Another revision of the Latin-German part - criticized from various quarters - appeared a hundred years later, in 2013.

1826: From the "hand dictionary primarily for schools" to the "hand dictionary"

In 1826 Lünemann took on the new title Georg Heinr. Lünemann's Latin-German and German-Latin concise dictionary. Imm [anuel] Joh [ann] Gerh [ard] Scheller's layout reworked .

Until then, the dictionary was last known as Imm. Joh. Gerh. Scheller's Latin-German and German-Latin hand lexicon [written before 1822 with "c" - instead of "k"], especially for schools, revised, improved and increased by G. H. Lünemann .

1831: First edition after Lünemann's death

Lünemann did not see the next edition; he died in 1830. By then he had edited the keywords up to the first letter "S- / s-". Karl Ernst Georges (when he was around 22 years old) started working on the dictionary as early as 1828.

The new edition then appeared in 1831, anticipated and quasi-edited - even if not expressly designated as the editor - by Georg Friedrich Grotefend , the decipherer of the cuneiform script . Georges is not mentioned by name in the Latin-German part of the dictionary; in fact, until Lünemann's death, Georges was mainly restricted to proofreading and adding additions that were put in brackets.

Even Georges himself later counted the next edition of the Latin-German part, which appeared in 1837/38, as his first own.

In contrast, Georges was able to publish the first volume of the German-Latin part under his name as early as 1831; The second volume followed in 1833; with this work he became Dr. phil. PhD ..

1837: Karl Ernst Georges also appears by name in the Latin-German section

In 1837 ( A – J ) and 1838 ( K – Z ) the above was published. next edition of the Latin-German part, which now identified Georges as the editor. In 1839 the next edition of the German-Latin part took place.

1861: Last edition under the old title

After several further editions, the last edition followed in 1861/1862 without the addition of detailed information in the book title.

1879–1882: Last edition during the lifetime of Karl Ernst Georges

The second edition with the title addition Detailed and at the same time the last edition with both a Latin-German and a German-Latin part appeared in 1879/1880.

The further history of the work (from 1913) is therefore presented under the separate lemma Detailed Latin-German concise dictionary .

Statistical

Table 1: Extent of the Latin-German part of the concise dictionary in different editions (selection)

Lünemann Grotefend
(anonymous: Georges) 		Georges
HWb 6
Leipzig 1826 		HWb 7 Leipzig 1831 HWb 8 (or 1)
Leipzig 1837 		HWb 12 (or 5)
Leipzig 1861/62 		A. HWb. 13 (or 6)
Leipzig 1869 		A. HWb. 14 (or 7)
Leipzig 1879/80
1747 pages 1732 pages 1877 pages 2112 pages 2468 pages ≤ 3060 pages

Abbreviations: HWb. = Concise dictionary; A. HWb. = Detailed concise dictionary .

Note: Only the Latin-German parts are taken into account. The superscript numbers indicate the respective edition. As far as two numbers are superscripted, the first concerns all editions processed by Lünemann and Georges and the second the editions for which Georges was specifically responsible. In fact, the editions of the concise dictionary that have been described as detailed are significantly more extensive than the previous ones - without, however , affecting the size of the third edition of Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller's detailed and as complete as possible Latin-German lexicon or dictionary from 1804 (over 12,000 Columns; that is, over 6,000 pages).

Table 2: Years of publication and list of editions in which editions Karl Ernst Georges was solely or partly involved

Latin-German part German-Lat.
Year of publication (s) including the previous Lünemann editions only the editions of Karl Ernst Georges Year of publication (s) including the previous Lünemann editions only the editions of Karl Ernst Georges
1831 7th --- 1831/1833 [7] without edition number
1837/1838 8th [1] 1839 [8th] 2
1843 9 [2] 1843 [9] 3
1848 10 3 --- --- ---
1855 11 4th 1853/1858 [10] 4th
1861/1862 12 5 1861 [11] 5
1869 [13] 6th 1870 [12] 6th
1879/1880 [14] 7th 1882 [13] 7th

Note: In the German-Latin part, Georges never continued the Lünemannian edition count; in Latin and German part he had them since the introduction of Title additive Detailed away. The edition numbers not mentioned in the print are put in square brackets in the table. Sources: For the years of publication 1831, 1837–39, 1861/62 and 1879–82: as stated in the footnotes to the article text or to Table 1; for the rest of the information see Richard Wolf.

For the German-Latin part from 1843 see: Volume 1  in the  Text Archive - Internet Archive and Volume 2  in the  Text Archive - Internet Archive (Wolf says, however: "1845 [or 1843?]").

Note

The individual volumes are not always preceded by a title page for the complete work. Together with the fact that both parts were also referred to individually as Latin-German and German-Latin concise dictionary - i.e. not always recognizable as parts of the overall work - misunderstandings can easily arise.

Web links

Wikisource: Dictionaries # Latin  - Sources and full texts

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b title page. Digitization of the Munich Digitization Center [MDZ] of the Bavarian State Library [BSB].
  2. ^ Title page of the 12th (resp. 5 revised) edition. 1862 in the Google book search.
  3. ^ Gerhard Baader :  Georges, Karl Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 242 ( digitized version ).
    Max Berbig:  Georges, Karl Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 288-290.
  4. ↑ See the reviews of:
  5. ↑ ISBN 978-3-534-73531-0 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201312155917 . - The new Georges. Publishing information. In: wbg-wissenverbindet.de , accessed on September 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Title page of the 5th edition, 1822. Digital copy of the MDZ of the BSB, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11105135-1 .
  7. ↑ "which [= the processing of the new edition] he [Lünemann] was only able to finish up to the letter S" ( digitized of the preface to the 7th edition, 1831, p. V in the Google book search).
  8. ↑ See: such as
  9. ↑ "His name does not appear [...] anywhere, and Grotefend, to whom Georges later dedicates his German-Latin concise dictionary as 'dearly honored patron' ', speaks in the preface to this edition only generally of the fact that the continuation of Lünemann's work' already a Others'. ” Richard Wolf: Georges, Karl Ernst (1806–1895). In: richardwolf.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 (from the source library Latin Dictionaries - An Illustrated Bibliography ).
  10. ↑ See also:
    • “Who [= the new employee] not only edited the letters T-Z after his [Lünemann's] death, but also took part in the correction during his [Lünemann's] protracted illness and made all the additions enclosed in brackets [] otherwise corrected some things and changed individual articles [...] in whole or in part ”. Digitization of the preface to the 7th edition, 1831, p. V in the Google book search.
    and
    • "It was him [the undersigned, d. H. Georges himself] only allows him to add additions here and there from his own collections, to add an explanation that he believes is more correct to words and idioms already in the dictionary, rarely to revise an entire article [...]. The blessed Lünemann was so strict about his property (as he called it) that even the improvements made by the employee [again Georges himself] could only be added in brackets. ” Preface to the 8th of the 1837 edition. Digitized by the MDZ of the BSB, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10586698-9 .
  11. ^ Digitized version of the first volume, 1831, by the MDZ of the BSB, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11105172-6 .
  12. ↑ Digitized version of the second volume, 1833, by the MDZ of the BSB, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11105173-2 .
  13. ↑ See: see. also:
    • Richard Wolf: Georges, Karl Ernst (1806–1895). In: richardwolf.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 (from the source library Latin Dictionaries - An Illustrated Bibliography ). Here, however, dated imprecisely: "In 1835, Georges received his doctorate in Jena (instead of a dissertation he had submitted his German-Latin dictionary from 1833 )." (Emphasis added).
    Precisely on the other hand:
    • "On the basis of his German-Latin dictionary, completed in 1833 , of which he submitted a copy to the Jenenser philosophical faculty instead of a dissertation, he received his doctorate on March 5, 1835." Max Berbig:  Georges, Karl Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 288-290 (here: p. 289 - emphasis added).
  14. ↑ Title page: A – J, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10586698-9 , and title page: K – Z , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10586699-9 (digital copies of both volumes of the 8th edition, 1837, by the MDZ of the BSB).
  15. ↑ A – K, 1839, and L – Z, 1839, in the Google book search.
  16. ↑ See on the Latin-German part: as well as the German-Latin part, 1861
  17. ↑ See the Latin-German part: as well as the German-Latin part:
  18. ^ Hahn , Leipzig 1826:
    • First section A – L (is not marked as such !; digitized version of the ÖNB ; XII pages + column 1–1664)
      = 844 pages
    • Second section M – Z ( digitized version of the ÖNB ; column 1665–3470 = 903 pages, of which the first four columns in print without labeling / numbering + one unpaginated page with publisher's advertisements - not included in the addition)
      = a total of 1747 pages.
  19. ^ Hahn, Leipzig 1831:
    • Latin-German part. First volume: A – L ( digitized in the Google book search; XVI pages + 1644 columns)
      = 838 pages.
    • Latin-German part. Second volume: M – Z ( digitized in the Google book search; 1788 columns = 894 pages)
      = a total of 1732 pages.
  20. ^ Hahn, Leipzig:
    • 1837: Latin-German part. First volume: A – J, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10586698-9 (VIII pages + 1802 columns + three unpaginated pages with publisher 's advertisements [not included in the addition])
      = 909 pages
    • 1838: Latin-German part. Second volume: K – Z, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10586699-9 (1932 columns + two unpaginated pages with misprint corrections and other improvements + four [not included in the addition] also unpaginated pages with publisher's advertisements)
      = total 1877 pages.
  21. ^ Hahn, Leipzig:
    • 1861: [ Latin-German part. First volume] A-J, DNB 996043837 (VIII pages + 2074 columns)
      = 1045 pages.
    • 1862: Latin-German part. Second volume. K – Z (2134 columns + one unpaginated page with "corrections" to the first and second volume = 1067 pages ( digitized in the Google book search))
      = a total of 2112 pages.
  22. ^ Hahn, Leipzig 1869:
  23. ^ Hahn, Leipzig:
    • 1879: A-H, DNB 996042555 (X pages + 2878 columns)
      = 1449 pages.
    • 1880: I – Z, DNB 996042644 (3210 columns + apparently three unpaginated pages with an undisclosed number of printed pages): ≤ 1611 pages,
      = in total ≤ 3060 pages.
  24. ↑ "Since the 8th edition was the first that Georges had published under his name, he now retroactively counts the 8th or 9th edition as his own 1st or 2nd edition, after which consequently the 3rd edition follows. ” Richard Wolf: Georges, Karl Ernst (1806–1895). In: richardwolf.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 (from the source library Latin Dictionaries - An Illustrated Bibliography ).
  25. ^ Richard Wolf: Georges, Karl Ernst (1806–1895). In: richardwolf.de. Retrieved September 11, 2018 (from the Source Library of Latin Dictionaries - An Illustrated Bibliography ). (Although the information there is not always reliable.)