Sprachpuristische Bestrebungen des 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Verdeutschungswörterbuchs von Johann Gottfried Sommer

Abstract

The present study explores a largely forgotten Germanization dictionary published in early decades of the 19th century in Prague. A short overview of J. G. Sommer's life will be presented as well as his set of rules on Germanizing loanwords, and a second edition of his dictionary published in 1819 will be described. The main part of the study comprises of presenting the results of an analysis conducted on two selected parts of the dictionary and a brief comparison between Sommer's work on purism and the work of one the most famous authors of Germanization dictionaries published in Germany, Joachim Heinrich Campe.

Keywords

• Johann Gottfried Sommer
• linguistic purism
• Germanisation
• lexicography