Background
Wilhelm Freund was born on the 27th of January, 1806 in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Wilhelm Freund was born on the 27th of January, 1806 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Wilhelm Freund studied education at Berlin and Wrocław, and was chiefly occupied in teaching till 1870, when he retired in order to devote himself to his literary pursuits.
Besides classical school-books and some works on philology, he compiled an elaborate Latin dictionary in 4 volumes, the Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache (1834–45), which has been the basis of the standard English-Latin dictionaries in the 19th century. It was translated into English by Ethan Allen Andrews in 1850 and revised (with Freund's own assistance) as the basis for Lewis and Short's A Latin Dictionary.
In addition to his work in philology, Freund was involved in Jewish education and in political activism for the rights of the Jewish community in the Kingdom of Prussia.