A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover].Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].

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A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover].Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].

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Johann Christian NOSSEK (1804-1856).

A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover].
Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].

Graz: Edward Ludewig – London: Black & Armstrong – Leipzig: Industry-Office 1837.

12°, XV, 88 pp., folding plate, original yellow wrappers with lettering (minor sporadic light staining, old annotation in black ink on first blank page and in the upper margin of p. 1., soft folds in corners, otherwise in a good condition with minor shelf wear) (# 70742).

An exceedingly rare pioneering work on English pronunciation, published in the Austrian Empire.

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Johann Christian Nossek (1804-1856) was the first notable Austrian linguist, who introduced English pronunciations and spellings to his fatherland, following contemporary German examples. He studied classical languages and soon developed interest in English, as an important international modern language. Mostly during the late 1830s he authored works on learning English and was later active as a teacher, translator and author of magazine articles.

The present book, listing correct pronunciation of personal and geographical names in English is one of the first Nossek’s recorded separately published works and probably one of the first books on learning English pronunciation, issued in Austrian Empire. A contemporary advertisement describes, that the book excels though its “clarity, elegance and clearness” (Allgemeine Zeitung München, 1836, p. 1750). In the same year, Nossek also published Englisches Lesebuch, Auswahl in Prosa und Versen (English Textbook, a Selection of Prose and Verses) and worked as an editor on the second edition of Kunst in zwei Monaten ohne Lehrer Englisch lesen, verstehen, schreiben u. sprechen zu lernen (The Art of Reading, Understanding, Writing and Speaking English in Two Months without a Teacher) by Julius Stephan Zerffi.

Although the title pages quote, that the book was published in Graz, as well as in London and Leipzig, it was probably printed in very small numbers and it was not commercially successful.

We could not trace any institutional examples. Worldcat lists the title with no recorded copies in libraries (OCLC 257686392) and the Austrian National Library does not hold an example.

References: Cf.: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, on-line source: BLKÖ:Nossek, Johann Christian – Wikisource.

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