Mackensen (dictionary)
The Mackensen is a German dictionary by Lutz Mackensen . It contains information on spelling, grammar, style, word explanations, abbreviations, pronunciation and history of the German vocabulary.
The first edition appeared in 1954 in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, the last (13th) during the author's lifetime in 1986. Its appearance is said to have prompted the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs to decide to regard the Duden as authoritative in cases involving the second Orthographic conference of 1901 were not regulated.
In 2002 a greatly abridged special edition was published by Gondrom-Verlag, which has since been revised to a version of the reformed German spelling .
The 2006 edition followed the 13th edition from 1986 and was thus one of the few new dictionaries that continued to represent and use the spelling that was customary until 1996. This edition contained around 300,000 keywords and phrases.
The new edition from 2008 is also written in the unreformed spelling.
A peculiarity of this dictionary is that in relation to the grammar, German terms (also in abbreviations) are used that are no longer used at least in many secondary schools and higher academic institutions, since the Latin terms have established themselves as the standard here.
There is also an etymological dictionary by Mackensen with the title Origin of Words . The 2013 edition appeared for the first time in reformed spelling.
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- ^ A b Lutz Mackensen: German dictionary . Manuscriptum, 2006, ISBN 3-937801-08-1 , pp. 1264 .
- ↑ FAQL.de
- ↑ Patrick Brauns and Heiner Müller (eds.): Mackensen. The German spelling. The comprehensive reference work . Gondrom, 2002, ISBN 3-8112-2098-5 , p. 640 .