Louis Tolhausen

Louis Tolhausen (* 1817 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1904 ) was a German Romance scholar , Hispanist and lexicographer.

life and work

The francophile Ludwig Tolhausen took the first name Louis. According to Hubert Lang, Tolhausen “was called to organize the public education system in Moldova ( Principality of Moldova ). The Prince Regent Michael Stourdza appointed him rector of the newly founded academy (Academia Mihăileană, today Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași University ) in Iași , where he took over the chair for French language and literature in 1839 ”. Tolhausen was Consul General of France in Leipzig until 1881 . In his retirement he developed an important bilingual dictionary with Spanish , which was published in two volumes in 1888 and 1889 by Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz and had ten editions by 1928. He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Works

• (Staff) Alexander Tolhausen, Technological Dictionary in French, German and English containing over 90,000 technical expressions and idioms that occur in art, trade and commerce, 2nd edition, 3 vols., Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874–1877, 10 3rd edition, 1929 (the first edition by Alexander Tolhausen and Charles Durand Gardissal, Dictionnaire technologique , 3 vol., FED, EFD, DEF, Paris, 1854–1855, 1864).
  • 1. French - German - English, 1877
  • 2. English - German - French, 1874
  • 3. German - English - French, 1876
• New Spanish-German and German-Spanish dictionary , 2 vols., Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1888–1889.

literature

• José Corvo Sánchez, Breve historia de la lexicografía bilingüe española y alemana hasta el siglo XIX, in: Philologia Hispalensis 22, 2008, pp. 113-139, here p. 130 ( http://institucional.us.es/revistas/philologia /22/03%20Corvo.pdf ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Tolhausen in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82203930/ (list of publications)
• http://www.hubertlang.de/5_martind4.html (Brief assessment, by Hubert Lang, within the history of the Martin Drucker senior family, 1834–1913)