Theodor Arnold (1683–1771) was a
German
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Anglicist from
Leipzig
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, at the time a part of the
Electorate of Saxony
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. He was a professor at the
University of Leipzig
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and published numerous
English grammars, dictionaries, and translations for German and Danish readers. His works were among the most popular for English-language learning in
Germany
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in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Bibliography
* ''New English Grammar'' (Hanover: 1718 & Leipzig: 1823 & 1829)
* ''Grammatica Anglicana Concentrata, oder Kurtz-gefaßte Englische Grammatica'' (Leipzig: 1736 & 1781)
* The
Quran
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(from
George Sale
George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist scholar and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Quran into English. In 1748, after having read Sale's translation, Voltaire wrote his own essay "De l'Alcoran et ...
's English translation, 1746)
* ''A Compleat English Dictionary oder Vollständiges Englisch-Deutsche Wörter-Buch'' (Leipzig: 1752)
* ''A Complet Vocabulary, English and German'' (Leipzig: 1757 & 1790)
* ''Vollständiges Deutsch-Englishes Wörterbuch'' (Leipzig: 1778 & 1783)
* ''Grammatica Anglicana et Danica Concentrata eller Engelske og Danske Grammatika'' (Copenhagen: 1791)
* ''Engelske Grammatik'' (Copenhagen: 1800)
* ''Fuldstændig Engelsk og Dansk Haand-Ordbog'' (Copenhagen: 1820)
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1683 births
1771 deaths
18th-century German scholars
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