Christian Friedrich Schwan ( German: Christian Friedrich Schwan ; December 12, 1733 , Prenzlau - June 29, 1815 , Heidelberg ) - German publisher and bookseller.
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Biography
In the years 1751-1753, Schwan studied theology at the universities of Halle and Jena . In 1758, he worked as a proofreader at the St. Petersburg Academy. In 1762, he served as an auditor in the regiment of Prince George Holstein-Gottorp , then served in the Prussian army . After business trips to Holland and Frankfurt, Schwan married in 1765 the daughter of a bookseller at the Esslinger Meiningen court and inherited his bookselling business.
The bookstore and the Schwan House turned into the cultural center of Meiningen, where such outstanding personalities of their time as Lessing , Goethe , Schubart , Lenz , Wieland , Herder and Sofia von Laroche gathered . In 1765-1766, Schwan published the moralistic weekly Invisible ( German: Der Unsichtbare ), and in 1774-1779, the newspaper Zapisnaya Plaque ( German: Die Schreibtafel ). In 1778, Schwan was awarded the title of court chamber adviser.
Schwan was closely associated with the Mannheim Theater. He recommended the director von Dahlberg for staging Schiller 's play "The Robbers " and released his theater version in 1782. Schwan’s publishing house also published for the first time such works by Schiller as the Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (1783) and Cunning and Love (1784). In 1785, Schiller married the daughter of Schwan, Anna Margarita (1766-1796), but received a polite refusal from the publisher.
In 1794, Schwan left Mannheim in troubled times after the French Revolution and subsequently resided in Heilbronn , Stuttgart and Heidelberg . In 1764, Schwan published the Russian Jokes in The Hague, which were published a year later in German in Frankfurt. The six-volume edition of the German-French dictionary was published in 1782-1798 in Mannheim. Then Schwan published "Illustrations of all secular and spiritual orders" (Mannheim, 1770) and "Illustrations of those orders that have their own orderly robes" (Mannheim, 1791).
Schwan Dictionaries
- Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue allemande et françoise , 2 Bde., Mannheim 1782-1784 (daraus: Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue allemande et françoise. Extrait de son grand dictionnaire , 2 Bde., Ludwigsburg 1799-1800)
- Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue françoise et allemande , 4 Bde. und ein Supplementbd., Mannheim 1787-1789-1791-1793-1798 (daraus: Nouveau dictionnaire de la langue françoise et allemande. Extrait de son grand dictionnaire , 2 Bde., Tübingen 1802-1804)
- Dictionnaire abrégé et portatif allemand-français à l'usage des commençans et des écoles. Suivi d'un petit vocabulaire français-allemand , Mannheim 1809
- Wörterbuch der deutschen und französischen Sprache nach dem Wörterbuche der französischen Akademie und dem Adelungischen. Französisch-Deutscher Teil , 2 Bde., Offenburg / Frankfurt a. M. 1810; Deutsch-Französischer Teil , 2 Bde., Offenburg / Frankfurt a. M. 1811
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119010860 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- FJ Hausmann: Christian Friedrich Schwan und sein deutsch-französisch, französisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (Mannheim / Ludwigsburg / Tübingen / Offenb. / Frankf. 1782-1811). In: Lingua et Traditio. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der neueren Philologien. Festschrift für Hans Helmut Christmann zum 65. Geburtstag , hrsg. von Richard Baum ua, Tübingen 1994, S. 801-817