John Robert Gregg

John Robert Gregg ( born June 17, 1867 in Rockorry, County Monaghan, Ireland, † February 23, 1948 in Cannondale, Connecticut, United States) was an American stenographer stenography and inventor of Irish origin.

Life

Gregg initially taught an English adaptation of the French shorthand of Duployé that he is not very suitable place for a high write speed because of their angular shapes. 1888 Gregg published his invention of shorthand first in a brochure ( Light-Line Phonography, Liverpool 1888). In 1893 he emigrated to the USA where he founded the Gregg Publishing Company (1948 acquired by McGraw -Hill ) in Chicago. The same year, 1893, he published the book Gregg shorthand, which was well received in the U.S.. For his Company Gregg wrote hundreds of books, especially instructions for his shorthand, but also for other areas of business (eg Applied Secretarial Practice, 2nd edition 1942).

Shorthand

Gregg shorthand used elliptical shapes, which can be written quickly. In addition, his system is phonetic, ie it is based on the pronunciation, not the spelling of the words, so be eg "telephone " the ph sound and " laugh" of gh - Sound for the shorthand characters f written. In contrast to the invented by Isaac Pitman Shorthand Gregg comes from without thickening; its shorthand can therefore be written in a single line thickness. Gregg shorthand has been gradually simplified in several later versions by the number of short forms has been reduced for certain words, for example. These later versions of Gregg shorthand hot Anniversary Gregg Shorthand (1929 ), Simplified Gregg Shorthand (1949 ), Diamond Jubilee Gregg Shorthand (1963 ), 90 series Gregg Shorthand (1978) and Centennial Gregg Shorthand (1988).

To date, Gregg Shorthand is the most widely used in the U.S. system. There are also transfers into other languages ​​, among which was designed by Eduardo Vega Spanish stenography has been found by Gregg the most widely used.