Josua Maaler

Joshua Maaler ( born June 15, 1529 Zurich, † June 5, 1599 Glattfelden, Switzerland ) was a Swiss priest and lexicographer. He is the author of the first focused on the German language dictionary.

Life

Joshua Maaler was born in 1529 in Zurich. His father, Balthasar Maaler, was a bookbinder from Villingen in the Black Forest, who settled in 1524 in Zurich. Joshua Maaler studied in Zurich, Lausanne and Oxford theology. He was elected pastor in Witikon (Canton Zurich ) on March 4, 1552 already 1553 he moved on to Elgg at Winterthur, where he wrote his dictionary The Teütsch Spraach. Maalers Dictionary The Teütsch Spraach, printed in 1561 in Zurich, is next to Peter Dasypodius Dictionary Latinogermanicum of 1536, the first major German dictionary which consistently goes in the lemmatization of the German language. It is a reordering of the presentation of the Latin- German dictionary Dictionary Latino Germanicum of John Frisius, which in turn processed the Latin - French Dictionary seu linguae Latinae Thesaurus of Robertus Stephanus. Maalers Teütsch Spraach called even though dergleychen bishär never gesähen, but has a pretty thin basis and was therefore probably never again reprinted and not even reprinted. 1571 Joshua Maaler pastor in Bischofszell in the canton of Thurgau, 1582 in Winterthur. 1598, he took his last position in Glattfelden in the canton of Zurich, where he died in 1599.

Works

• The Teütsch Spraach: all words, names and types zuo talk in hochteütscher Spraach, the ABC provided by ordenlich unnd with guotem Latin gantz diligently unnd actually vertolmetscht, bisshär never dergleychen gesähen / Dictionary germanicolatinum novum: hoc est, Linguae Teutonicae, superioris praesertim, thesaurus / by Joshua Maaler, burgers zuo Zurich = a Joshua Pictorio Tigurino confectus & nunc primum in lucem editus. With preface by Conrad Gesner. Christopher Froschouerus, Tiguri 1561 (online). Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1971.