The Duden ( /du:d(ə)n/) is a German dictionary, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880. Its English-language equivalent would be the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Manual of Specialised Lexicography, Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ...

Currently the Duden is in its 23rd edition and published in 12 volumes, each covering different aspects like loan words, etymology, pronunciation, synonyms, etc. The first of these volumes, the "Rechtschreibduden" (Spelling Duden) has long been the prescriptive source for the spelling of German. Manual of Specialised Lexicography, Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds. ...

The Duden is updated regularly, with new editions appearing every four or five years.

History

Konrad Duden

In 1872, Konrad Duden, headmaster of a gymnasium (secondary school) in Schleiz (Thuringia), published a German dictionary called the "Schleizer Duden", the first Duden. In 1880 he published the Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ("Complete Orthographical Dictionary of the German Language"), known colloquially as Der Duden Handbuch ("Duden Handbook"); this seminal treatise was declared the official source for correct spelling in the administration of Prussia the same year. The first edition of this Duden contained 28,000 entries. A gymnasium is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ... The Free State of Thuringia (German Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 sq. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and...

From 1901 to 1996

In 1902 the Bundesrat confirmed the Duden as basis for the official German spelling, and Austria-Hungary and Switzerland soon followed. In the decades that followed, the Duden editors de facto continued to prescribe German orthography. After World War II this tradition was continued separately in East and West Germany in Leipzig and Mannheim. In West Germany, some publishing houses began to attack the Duden monopoly in the 1950s, publishing dictionaries that contained alternative spellings. In reaction, in November 1955 the ministers of culture of the German bundesländer confirmed the normative status of the Duden spellings in all cases of doubt. 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Location of Mannheim in Germany The Wasserturm (water tower), Mannheims landmark Coat of Arms of Mannheim Watershed of the Neckar River Mannheim is a city in Germany. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Bundesland (plural Bundesländer), also known as Land (plural Länder) is the German language name for the Austria and Germany. ...

The reform Duden

Main article: German spelling reform of 1996 The German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) was an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland), concerning the reform of German spelling. ...

External link

• www.duden.de