Henriette Michaelis

Henriette Michaelis (6 July 1849 - † unknown) was a 19th-century German romance philologist and lexicographer. Alongside her sister Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, Michaelis created the first Michaelis dictionary.[1]

Biography

Michaelis was born in Berlin on 6 July 1849 to Gustav Michaëlis[de] (1813–1895), a physics and mathematics teacher and stenographer, and Henriette Louise Lobeck, who came from a Berlin publishing family.[2][3] Her siblings include the philologist Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos and the educationalist Carl Theodor Michaëlis.[3] Michaelis published dictionaries of Romance languages.[4]

The Michaelis dictionary

See also: Michaelis (dictionary)

Henriette Michaelis and her sister Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos produced first Michaelis dictionary, published at the end of the 19th century by F. A. Brockhaus AG.[4] Publishing rights were obtained by the Melhoramentos publishing house in 1950s.[1] The Michaelis dictionary was "a huge success throughout the 20th century and remains so in the 21th [sic] century."[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sobre o dicionário". Michaelis On-Line (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  2. ^ "The story of the women behind the Michaelis dictionary". The Michaelis Foundation for Global Education. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  3. ^ a b Delille, Maria Manuela Gouveia (2009). A vida e a obra de Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos: evocação e homenagem: exposição bibliográfica e documental (in Portuguese) (1 ed.). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. doi:10.14195/978-989-26-0165-6. ISBN 978-989-26-0165-6.
  4. ^ a b "Henriette Michaelis (*1849)". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
  5. ^ Villalva, Alina; Williams, Geoffrey (2019-08-01). The Landscape of Lexicography. Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da universidade de Aveiro. p. 150. ISBN 978-989-98666-5-2.