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Karl Ernst Georges (; 26 December 1806,
Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the Gotha (district), district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine House of Wet ...
– 25 August 1895, Gotha) was a German
classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...
and
lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...
, known for his edition of Latin-German dictionaries. From 1826 to 1828 he studied classical philology at the
University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
as a pupil of Karl Otfried Müller and Georg Ludolf Dissen, then continued his education at
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. In 1828 he was employed by the ''Hahn'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung'' under the direction of Georg Heinrich Lünemann to assist in revising a new edition of Scheller's Latin-German lexicon.Georges, Karl Ernst
at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
He completed work on the lexicon in 1833 (Lünemann had died in 1830) and it was accepted at the
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in lieu of a dissertation for his doctorate degree. In 1837 Georges published a new edition of the Latin-German lexicon under his own name.A History of Classical Scholarship ...: The eighteenth century in Germany ...
by Sir
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Georges, Karl Ernst
at Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, , S. 241.
From 1839 to 1856 he worked as a senior instructor at the
Realgymnasium ''Gymnasium'' (; German plural: ''Gymnasien''), in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being ''Hauptschule'' (lowest) and ''Realschule'' (middle). ''Gymnas ...
and the Ernestine Gymnasium in Gotha. Due to failing eyesight, he retired from teaching and devoted his time to lexicographical work.


Published works

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Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch
' (8th edition, 2 volumes 1913-18; revised and enlarged by his son, Heinrich Georges) – Detailed Latin-German dictionary. *
Kleines deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch
' (7th edition, 1910; revised and enlarged by Heinrich Georges) – Small German-Latin dictionary. * "A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon : founded on the German-Latin dictionary of Dr. Charles Ernest Georges", 1849 by Rev. Joseph Esmond Riddle and Rev.
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. * ''Thesaurus der klassischen Latinität'', 1854-68 (2 volumes) –
Thesaurus A thesaurus (plural ''thesauri'' or ''thesauruses'') or synonym dictionary is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea: Synonym dictionar ...
of classical Latin. * ''Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches und deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch'', (1869, 7th edition 1879-82). * ''Lateinisch-Deutsches Schulwörterbuch zu Terentius, Cicero, Caesar, Sallustius'', etc., 1876 – Latin-German dictionary of
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, et al. * ''Lexikon der lateinischen Wortformen'', 1890 – Lexicon of Latin word forms.Most widely held works by Karl Ernst Georges
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Georges, Karl Ernst 1806 births 1895 deaths People from Gotha (town) University of Göttingen alumni Leipzig University alumni German classical philologists German lexicographers German Latinists 19th-century lexicographers