Richard Perceval
Richard Perceval (* 1550 ; † September 4, 1620 in Dublin ) was a British Romanist , Hispanist and lexicographer.
life and work
Perceval (also Percival, Percyvall, Persevall or Percevale) came from a wealthy family. As a young man he fell out with his father, went to Spain with his young wife, and spent four years there until her death. Back in England in 1586, his knowledge of Spanish was instrumental in uncovering the project of the Spanish Armada , which was defeated in 1588.
Three years later, the first English dictionary of Spanish (with grammar) appeared under the name Percyvall. It has 184 pages and 12,500 entries. Latin is not a target language, but serves to establish meaning. Percyvall used the dictionaries of Antonio de Nebrija and Cristóbal de las Casas as sources .
The tradition established by Perceval was continued by John Minsheu .
Works
- Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containing a Grammar with a dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine , London 1591
literature
- 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
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perceval, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romance philologist , Hispanist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1620 |
| Place of death | Dublin |