Henriette Michaelis (6 July 1849 - † unknown) was a 19th-century German romance philologist and lexicographer. Alongside her sister Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, Michaelis created the first Michaelis dictionary.
Biography
Michaelis was born in Berlin on 6 July 1849 to Gustav Michaëlis (1813–1895), a physics and mathematics teacher and stenographer, and Henriette Louise Lobeck, who came from a Berlin publishing family. Her siblings include the philologist Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos and the educationalist Carl Theodor Michaëlis. Michaelis published dictionaries of Romance languages.
The Michaelis dictionary
See also: Michaelis (dictionary)Henriette Michaelis and her sister Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos produced first Michaelis dictionary, published at the end of the 19th century by F. A. Brockhaus AG. Publishing rights were obtained by the Melhoramentos publishing house in 1950s. The Michaelis dictionary was "a huge success throughout the 20th century and remains so in the 21th century."
References
- ^ "Sobre o dicionário". Michaelis On-Line (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
- "The story of the women behind the Michaelis dictionary". The Michaelis Foundation for Global Education. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
- ^ Delille, Maria Manuela Gouveia (2009). A vida e a obra de Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos: evocação e homenagem: exposição bibliográfica e documental (in Portuguese) (1 ed.). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. doi:10.14195/978-989-26-0165-6. ISBN 978-989-26-0165-6.
- ^ "Henriette Michaelis (*1849)". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
- Villalva, Alina; Williams, Geoffrey (2019-08-01). The Landscape of Lexicography. Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da universidade de Aveiro. p. 150. ISBN 978-989-98666-5-2.