Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller

{{Short description|German classical philologist and lexicographer}}

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Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (22 March 1735, in Ihlow – 5 July 1803, in Brieg) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer.

From 1757 he studied theology and classical philology at the University of Leipzig, and following graduation, began work as rector at the lyceum in Lübben (1761). In 1771, by way of a suggestion from Karl Abraham Zedlitz, he relocated to Brieg as a professor and rector of its royal grammar school. Here he remained until his death in 1803.[http://www.richardwolf.de/latein/scheller.htm Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller] Lateinische Wörterbücher – Eine illustrierte Bibliographie von Richard Wolf[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz78139.html Scheller, Immanuel Johann Gerhard] at Deutsche Biographie

He is remembered for his important work as a lexicographer of Latin dictionaries, his aim being, to present the lexicon of the ancient authors as it developed historically. In 1783 he published a two-volume detailed Latin-German dictionary; its second edition in 1788 was expanded to three volumes, and the third edition, issued a year after his death (1804), was published in five volumes. In 1792 he published a "concise" Handlexicon, which after his death was issued over several revisions by Georg Heinrich Lünemann.[https://books.google.com/books?id=5PfbBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Immanuel+Johann+Gerhard+Scheller%22+1735&pg=PA627 Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography] edited by Rufus Gouws