DANIEL

See also:

• DANIEL SANDERS (1819-1896)
• SANDERS, NICHOLAS (c. 1530-1581)

SANDERS (1819-1896)  , German lexicographer, was born on the 12th of November 1819 at Altstrelitz in Mecklenburg, of Jewish parentage . He was educated at the " Gymnasium Carolinum " in the neighbouring capital Neustrelitz, and the universities of Berlin and Halle, where he took the degree of doctor philosophiae . From 1842 to 1852 he conducted with success the school at Altstrelitz . In 1852 he subjected Grimm's Deutsches Worterbuch to a rigorous examination, and as a result published his dictionary of the German language, Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache (3 vols., 1859-1865) . This was followed by his Erganzungsworterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1878-1885) . Among others of his works in the same field are Fremdworterbuch (Leipzig, 1871; 2nd ed., 1891), Worterbuch der Hauptschwierigkeiten in der deutschen Sprache (1872; 22nd ed., 1892) and Lehrbuch der deutschen Sprache fur Schulen (8th ed., 1888) . Sanders laid down his views in his Katechismus der deutschen Orthographie (1856; 4th ed., 1878), and was an active member of the orthographical conference in Berlin in 1876 . He published a translation in verse of theSong of Songs(1866) , and wrote some poems for the young, Heitere Kinderwelt (1868) . In 1887 he founded the Zeitschrift fur die deutsche Sprache, which he conducted almost down to his death at Altstrelitz on the 11th of March 1897 . See Friedrich Dusel, Daniel Sanders (1886; 2nd ed., 1890); A . 'Segert-Stein, Daniel Sanders, ein Gedenkbuch (1897) .