Sanders, DANIEL — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Sanders, DANIEL, German lexicographer, was born at Alt-Strelitz in Mecklenburg on 12th November 1819. Educated at Berlin and Halle, he was head of the school in his native town from 1843 to 1852, and thenceforth devoted his energies to the making of dictionaries of the German language, books that enjoy a high reputation amongst his own countrymen. The most important and most popular are a Wörterbuch (3 vols. 1859-63), Katcchismus der deutschen Orthographie (4th ed. 1878), Handwörterbuch (4th ed. 1888), Fremdwörterbuch (2 vols. 1871), Wörterbuch der Hauptschwierigkeiten in der deutschen Sprache (18th ed. 1888), and Deutsche Sprachbriefe (1878; 5th ed. 1885). He has also written Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Litteratur (3d ed. 1886), and has edited, in conjunction with Rangabé, Geschichte der neugriechischen Litteratur (1884).