Nathanaël Duëz
Nathanaël Duëz (* 1609 in Alsace ; † after 1669) was a French linguist, lexicographer and grammarian, Romanist , Germanist and Italianist.
life and work
Duëz came from a Huguenot family. He studied in Strasbourg and, after extensive travels through Italy, France, Germany and England, settled in Leiden in 1635 as master of Italian, French and German , from where he published numerous successful language textbooks until 1669. Nothing is known about his whereabouts.
Works
- Newly increased and improved French Grammatica = Grammaire françoise corrigée et augmentée / Nathanaël Dhuëz, 1636; Grammaire françoise, reveuë & renouvellée d'un abrégé de syntaxe & de plusieurs autres choses, qui manquoient aux impressions précédentes, ed. by Simon Herbau, Cologne 1696
- Le vray et parfait gvidon de la langue françoise, avec quatre dialogues françois & allemands & un bouquet de sentences. The right and perfect guide to the French language. Sampt four French and German conversations, and several exquisite sayings, Leiden 1639, 1643, 1657, Amsterdam 1662, Paris 1973
- Nova nomenclatura quatuor linguarum, gallico, germanico, italico et latino idiomate conscripta per Nathanaelem Dhuesium, Leiden 1640, Amsterdam 1652, 1663
- (Translator) JA Comenii Janua aurea reserata quator linguarum , sive Compendiosa methodus latinam, germanicam, gallicam et italicam linguam perdidiscendi ... aucta, cum quadruplici indice: a Nathanaele Dhuez in idioma gallicum et italicum traducta, Amsterdam 1640, 1644, Leiden 1640, 16 Paris 1669
- Le guidon de la langue italienne, Leiden 1641, Amsterdam 1659; Le Vray Gvidon De La Langve Italienne: avec trois dialogues familiers, Italiens & François. La comedie de la Moresse. Les compliments of Italy. Et une guirlande de proverbes, Amsterdam 1668, 1670, Rouen 1673, Geneva 1685
- Dictionarium gallico-germanico-latinum. Dictionnaire françois-allemand-latin et allemand-françois-latin, Leiden 1642, 1644, 1647, 1650, 1657, 1660, 1663, 1664, 1671, 1673, Amsterdam 1664, Geneva 1673, 1683
- Nathanaelis Duesii Compendium grammaticae Gallicae in gratiam illorum editum, qui Germanicum idoma perfectè non callent, Leiden 1647, Geneva 1973
- Esclaircissement de quelques différents en la langue italienne ... sur aucunes attacques qui luy ont esté données de Pierre Paravicin, Leiden 1655
- Dittionario italiano e francese. Dictionnaire italien et français, Leiden 1659–1660, Geneva 1664, 1667, 1671, 1678; Dictionnaire français-Italien, Venice 1662, 1678
- Nath. Duesii compendium grammaticae germanicae, Amsterdam 1668
- (Ed.) Charles Sorel , La vraye Histoire comique de Francion. Composée par Nicolas de Moulinet, Sieur du Parc, Gentilhomme Lorrain. Soigneusement reveuë & corrigée par Nathanaël Duëz, Maistre de Langues, Leiden 1668
literature
- Pieter LM Loonen, Nathanael Duez. Biography and a first bibliography, in: Meesterwerk. Reports van het Peeter Heynsgenootschap 3, 1995, pp. 2-15
- William Jervis Jones, German Lexicography in the European Context. A descriptive bibliography of printed dictionaries and word lists containing German language (1600-1700) , Berlin / New York 2000
- Sara Szoc, Esclaircissement sur deux maîtres plurilingues du XVIIe siècle à Leyde, in: Documents pour l'histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde [En ligne], 42 | 2009, posted January 16, 2011, accessed July 29, 2014. URL: http://dhfles.revues.org/692
Web links
- Literature by and about Nathanaël Duëz in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Duëz, Nathanaël |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duez, Nathanael; Dhuez, Nathanael; Duesius, Nathanael; Dhuesius, Nathanael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French linguist, lexicographer and grammarian, Romanist and Italianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1609 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Alsace |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1669 |