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George J. Adler was born in 1821 in Leipzig, Germany. He was brought to the United States in 1833.
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A German and English Dictionary: Compiled Originally From the Works of Hilpert, Flügel, Grieb, Heyse, and Others (Classic Reprint)
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The Poetry Of The Arabs Of Spain (1867) (Kessinger Legacy Reprints)
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A Dictionary of the German and English Languages: Indicating the Accentuation of Every German Word, Containing Several Hundred German Synonyms, ... Verbs; In Two Parts: I. German and English;
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Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Linguistical Studies
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A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language: With Perpetual Exercises in Speaking and Writing; For the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Learners (Classic Reprint)
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A Key to the Exercises Contained in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language (English and Latin Edition)
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George J. Adler
Edit ProfileEducation
Adler was valedictorian of the class of 1844 at New York University.
Career
In 1846 Adler was appointed professor of modern languages at New York University. He had begun teaching in the college while still an undergraduate.
During the next few years he published several excellent German text-books, but most of his time and energy was devoted to the Dictionary of the German and English Languages (1849). As his basis Adler used Flügel's dictionary, but he subjected the whole book to a thorough revision, adding almost 30, 000 new terms (chiefly loan words) and several hundred brief articles on synonyms. He had nothing to do with the smaller English-German volume, which was a mere reprint "under the auspices of the publisher" of Flügel.
Adler's dictionary, which has been a boon to several generations of American students of German, was for its author a calamity, for the unaided, unremitting drudgery of its compilation shattered his health, and he was thenceforward intermittently insane.
In October 1849, his health temporarily restored, he sailed for Europe for a year of study and travel. On the wharf George Duyckinck introduced him to a fellow-traveler, Herman Melville. The two instantly became friends, spending the long days of the voyage in discussing philosophy, and meeting again in London and Paris.
On his return to New York, Adler resumed his duties at the university, meanwhile studying assiduously. In the summer of 1853 hallucinations and delusions of persecution began again to assail him; on October 5 he had a violent outbreak and two days later was taken to the Bloomingdale Asylum. In the shelter of the asylum, he completed, among other text-books, an interesting Latin grammar on Ollendorfian principles (1858).
Later he lectured on Roman literature, Arabian poetry, and Goethe's Faust, and supported himself by giving private lessons in Latin and German.
Other able works from his pen were a translation of Fauriel's History of Provençal Poetry (1860), Notes on Certain Passages of the Agamemnon of 'schylus (1861), Wilhelm von Humboldt's Linguistic Studies (1866), and The Poetry of the Arabs of Spain (1867).
He died at the Bloomingdale Asylum.
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A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language: With Perpetual Exercises in Speaking and Writing; For the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Learners (Classic Reprint)
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A German and English Dictionary: Compiled Originally From the Works of Hilpert, Flügel, Grieb, Heyse, and Others (Classic Reprint)
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A Dictionary of the German and English Languages: Indicating the Accentuation of Every German Word, Containing Several Hundred German Synonyms, ... Verbs; In Two Parts: I. German and English;
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A Key to the Exercises Contained in Adler's Practical Grammar of the Latin Language (English and Latin Edition)
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The Poetry Of The Arabs Of Spain (1867) (Kessinger Legacy Reprints)
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Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Linguistical Studies
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A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language: With Perpetual Exercises in Speaking and Writing; For the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Learners (Classic Reprint)
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Herman Melville: "He is author of a formidable lexicon (German and English); in compiling which he almost ruined his health. He was almost crazy, he tells me, for a time. He is full of the German metaphysics, and discourses of Kant, Swedenborg, etc. "
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August 24, 1868 (aged 47) -
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Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York, United States -
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American