Josua Maaler

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Josua Maaler (1529–1599)

Josua Maaler (also Mahler, Latinized Pictorius; 1529–1599) was a Swiss pastor and lexicographer. He was the author of the first dictionary which focussed exclusively on the German language, published in Zürich as Die Teütsch Spraach in 1561.

Maaler followed the Dictionarium Latinogermanicum by Petrus Dasypodius (1536) in giving the German lemmas alphabetically, as opposed to the earlier Dictionarium Latino-Germanicum by Johannes Frisius, which gave German glosses on Latin lemmas.

Works

Die Teütsch spraach: alle wörter, namen, und arten zuo reden in Hochteütscher spraach: dem ABC nach ordenlich gestellt, unnd mit guotem Latein gantz fleissig unnd eigentlich vertolmetscht, dergleychen bishär nie gesähen. durch Josua Maaler … = Dictionarum Germanicolatinum novum: hoc est, Linguae Teutonicae, superioris praesentim, thesaurus: in quo omnes fere Germanicae dictiones atque locutiones ordine Alphabeti enumerantur, et Latine ex probatissimis authoribus, quam proprijsimè purissimeque redduntur. a Iosua Pictorio Tigurino confectus, et in lucem nunc primum editus. Preface by Conrad Gesner. Froschouer, Tiguri 1561, reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1971.

References

Grubmüller, Klaus: Die deutsche Lexikographie von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Hausmann, F. J. u. a.: Wörterbücher. Berlin, New York 1990, S. 2037-2049, ISBN 3-11-012420-3, S. 2045.
Literature by and about Josua Maaler in the German National Library catalogue
Josua Maaler in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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Name	Maaler, Josua
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Date of birth	1529
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Date of death	1599
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