Heinrich Christoph Albrecht’s Versuch einer critischen Englischen Sprachlehre : Tracing Robert Lowth in an 18th-century textbook for the teaching and learning of English
Summary
In 1784 Heinrich Christoph Albrecht published the book Versuch einer critischen englischen Sprachlehre. The book’s subtitle reads “Vorzüglich nach dem Englischen des Dr. Lowth” and thus confirms that it is based on Robert Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar (cf. also Alston 1965: 48). This paper seeks to introduce Albrecht’s work, and by comparing Albrecht’s Sprachlehre with Lowth’s Short Introduction, the following question will be answered: how much of Lowth’s original work was present in Albrecht’s adaptation?
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Albrecht, H[einrich] C[hristoph]
Alston, R[obin] C[arfrae]
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von
Canzler, Friedrich G[ottlieb]
Ebers, Johannes
ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Thomson Gale.
Fabian, Bernhard
Jansohn, Christa & Dieter Mehl
Klippel, Friederike
Lowth, Robert
Mauer, Michael
Reichel, Christian Heinrich
Rieger, Ute
Schröder, Konrad
Schmidt-Funke, Julia A.
Smend, Rudolf
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid
Vater, Johann Severin