100 years of Spelling aid from Konrad Duden - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1980 - 60 Pfennig


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CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date1980
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Colororange yellow
PerforationK 14
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Chronological Issue Number926
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
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100 years first spelling dictionary by Konrad Duden (born November 3, 1829 on estate Bossigt at Wesel, died 1 August 1911 in Sonnenberg [today to Wiesbaden]). Until the second half of the 19th century, spelling in Germany had grown without a comprehensive binding regulation. Although several factors, notably the increasing circulation of books and periodicals and the introduction of compulsory education, had been highly unifying in modern times, there were no consistent spellings in the nineteenth century, despite many coincidences. The publishers still had their own home orthography, and the teachers had to meet at the schools to agree on the spelling. The decisive impetus for uniform and binding orthography was based on the founding of the Reich in 1871. At the School Conference of the Länder convened in Dresden in 1872, the Prussian Minister of Education Falk was commissioned to adopt the standardization of spelling - the political settlement was to be followed by the orthographic consequences! In 1875, Falk convened a conference on "Making greater agreement in German spelling" to Berlin. But this conference ended in failure, for its decisions were rejected by the governments of the countries as too broad. One shrank from touching the familiar typeface. After the failure of this large-scale attempt to arrive at a unified spelling, Konrad Duden set about writing his "Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language". The prerequisites for this existed: in 1871 he had written spelling rules for school use for the Gymnasium in Schleiz, at which time he was director, and a year later, after these rules had also been accepted with approval outside his school he wrote the book »The German Spelling. Treatise, Rules and Dictionary «published. In 1875 he participated in the state spelling conference in Berlin and subsequently defended the resolutions of this conference in his work "The Future Orthography". In order to achieve the unity of spelling, Duden renounced to realize his own ideas of a German spelling. He essentially confined himself to applying the rules for Prussian school orthography to vocabulary. In 1880 Konrad Duden published his »Complete orthographic dictionary of the German language«. Within a decade, this small book, geared to the needs of the general public and intended for everyday use, achieved what no conference at provincial or imperial level had achieved. It brought about unification in Germany, indeed, the entire German-speaking world began to prosper capture. As early as 1892, at a spelling conference in German-speaking Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council decided that the future Swiss orthography should be the spelling specified in Duden's "Orthographic Dictionary". The book Konrad Duden, which has since been repeatedly edited and expanded, has long since become known under the name of its author. It is more than just a spelling or a dictionary: over the decades it reflects technical and scientific progress, cultural development and all social changes, and, like a seismograph, it shows every linguistic change. Over the course of a century, the Duden has become an institution in the German-speaking world. (Text: Bibliographic Institute AG, Mannheim)

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100 years first spelling dictionary by Konrad Duden (born November 3, 1829 on estate Bossigt at Wesel, died 1 August 1911 in Sonnenberg [today to Wiesbaden]). Until the second half of the 19th century, spelling in Germany had grown without a comprehensive binding regulation. Although several factors, notably the increasing circulation of books and periodicals and the introduction of compulsory education, had been highly unifying in modern times, there were no consistent spellings in the nineteenth century, despite many coincidences. The publishers still had their own home orthography, and the teachers had to meet at the schools to agree on the spelling. The decisive impetus for uniform and binding orthography was based on the founding of the Reich in 1871. At the School Conference of the Länder convened in Dresden in 1872, the Prussian Minister of Education Falk was commissioned to adopt the standardization of spelling - the political settlement was to be followed by the orthographic consequences! In 1875, Falk convened a conference on "Making greater agreement in German spelling" to Berlin. But this conference ended in failure, for its decisions were rejected by the governments of the countries as too broad. One shrank from touching the familiar typeface. After the failure of this large-scale attempt to arrive at a unified spelling, Konrad Duden set about writing his "Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language". The prerequisites for this existed: in 1871 he had written spelling rules for school use for the Gymnasium in Schleiz, at which time he was director, and a year later, after these rules had also been accepted with approval outside his school he wrote the book »The German Spelling. Treatise, Rules and Dictionary «published. In 1875 he participated in the state spelling conference in Berlin and subsequently defended the resolutions of this conference in his work "The Future Orthography". In order to achieve the unity of spelling, Duden renounced to realize his own ideas of a German spelling. He essentially confined himself to applying the rules for Prussian school orthography to vocabulary. In 1880 Konrad Duden published his »Complete orthographic dictionary of the German language«. Within a decade, this small book, geared to the needs of the general public and intended for everyday use, achieved what no conference at provincial or imperial level had achieved. It brought about unification in Germany, indeed, the entire German-speaking world began to prosper capture. As early as 1892, at a spelling conference in German-speaking Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council decided that the future Swiss orthography should be the spelling specified in Duden's "Orthographic Dictionary". The book Konrad Duden, which has since been repeatedly edited and expanded, has long since become known under the name of its author. It is more than just a spelling or a dictionary: over the decades it reflects technical and scientific progress, cultural development and all social changes, and, like a seismograph, it shows every linguistic change. Over the course of a century, the Duden has become an institution in the German-speaking world. (Text: Bibliographic Institute AG, Mannheim).