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Petrus Dasypodius (''Peter Hasenfratz'', ca. 1495–1559) was a Swiss humanist. Born in
Petrus Dasypodius (''Peter Hasenfratz'', ca. 1495–1559) was a Swiss humanist. Born in Frauenfeld
Frauenfeld (Alemannic: ''Frauefäld'') is the capital of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The official language of Frauenfeld is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Sw ...
, he was a teacher and pastor in Zürich
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from 1527. Due to the Swiss Reformation
The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate, Mark Reust, and the population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matte ...
, he was forced to move back to Frauenfeld in 1530. In 1533, he went to Strasbourg
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, where he taught Latin at the Carmelite monastery, and later at the ''Gymnasium Argentinense''.
Petrus was the author of a number of dictionaries, Latin-German, Greek-Latin, Greek-Latin-German, Latin-German-Polish, Latin-German-Czech. His ''Dictionarium Latinogermanicum'' of 1535 is one of the earliest German dictionaries
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published. It was reprinted in Strasbourg in numerous editions until the end of the 16th century (ed. Rihel) and into the 17th;
Rreprints also appeared in Antwerp (Montanus 1542), Cologne (Metternich 1633), Amsterdam (1650), Frankfurt (Schönwetter 1653)
The 2nd edition of 1536 was reprinted in 1974 and 1995 (ed. Olms, ).
Petrus was the father of mathematician and astronomer Conrad Dasypodius
Conrad Dasypodius (1532 – 26 April 1600) was a professor of mathematics in Strasbourg, Alsace. He was born in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland. His first name was also rendered as Konrad or Conradus or Cunradus, and his last name has been al ...
(1530/32–1600/1601).
See also
*Josua Maaler
Josua Maaler (also ''Maler, Mahler'', Latinized ''Pictorius''; 1529–1599)
was a Swiss pastor and lexicographer.
He was the author of the first dictionary which focussed exclusively on the German language, published in Zürich as ''Die Teü ...
References
*Jonathan West, ''Lexical innovation in Dasypodius' dictionary'', Berlin 1989 (de Gruyter). *External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dasypodius, Petrus 1490s births 1559 deaths Swiss philologists Swiss Renaissance humanists Lexicographers German dictionaries People from Frauenfeld