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The Langenscheidt Publishing Group was founded on 1 October 1856 by Gustav Langenscheidt, in response to other publishers' refusal to publish his self-study materials for learning French, which he subsequently published under the title „ Unterrichtsbriefe zur Erlernung der französischen Sprache“ ("Teaching letters for learning the French language").
Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual subjectivity and, in particular ...
The clerihew, a comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is first mentioned in print. [16] It is claimed that one in four of all secular books printed and sold in England this year are the work of Edgar Wallace. [17] Edgar Wallace with trademark trilby hat and cigarette holder at the height of his success in ...
The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is an annual literary prize named for the German–American publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff "honoring an outstanding literary translation from German into English", published in the United States of America the previous year. The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000.
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His main work is the Deutsches Wörterbuch (German Dictionary, also referred to as Der Wahrig, 1st edition in 1966), which had been revised and updated under the direction of his daughter Dr. Renate Wahrig-Burfeind since 1986. German publisher Wissen Media Group gave up book trading in February 2014 and closed business several years later. [2]
Caemmerer translated only the first two books, viz. the Book of Virtue and the Book of Wealth. [3] The first well-known complete German translation was made by Karl Graul in 1856. [ 2 ] It is said that when a Kural couplet was explained in English to Graul, [ n 1 ] he was so much taken up with it and started learning the Tamil language in order ...