Kurrent
{{Short description|Form of German-language handwriting}}
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{{lang|de|Kurrent}} ({{IPA|de|kʊˈʁɛnt|lang}}) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as {{lang|de|Kurrentschrift}} ("cursive script"), {{lang|de|deutsche Schrift}} ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.
German writers used both cursive styles, {{lang|de|Kurrent}} and Latin cursive, in parallel: Location, contents, and context of the text determined which script style to use.
{{lang|de|Sütterlin}} is a modern script based on {{lang|de|Kurrent}} that is characterized by simplified letters and vertical strokes. It was developed in 1911 and taught in all German schools as the primary script from 1915 until the beginning of January 1941. Then it was replaced with {{lang|de|deutsche Normalschrift}} ("normal German handwriting"), which is sometimes referred to as "Latin writing".
Lettering examples
File:Lessing Kleist-Brief.jpg|Letter from Lessing to Kleist, 14 March 1758
File:Schein und Sein.jpg|Manuscript by Wilhelm Busch (undated, late 19th century)
File:Bielsko-Biała Teatr Polski 004.JPG|Example from a book published in 1905
File:Paul Simmel - Das Kind und der Krieg,1916.jpg|{{lang|de|Kurrent}} script used for text in a 1916 children's book
File:Staedt.Kinderheim-01.jpg|Signage on a municipal children's home ({{lang|de|Städtisches Kinderheim}}) in {{lang|de|Esslingen am Neckar}} in 2006
File:Kurrent Note.jpg|A handwritten restaurant order in {{lang|de|Kurrent}} from the 1920s
File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p294-raw.png|{{lang|de|Kurrent}} script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the 26 letters, ligatures, start of sample text
File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p295-raw.png|{{lang|de|Kurrent}} script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the rest of the sample text
File:Jul-Greg-George-II-1750.tif|Final paragraph of a German contract from 1750 signed by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover. It contains a mixture of {{lang|de|Kurrent}} and 'Latin font' scripts.
File:Letter to George Stier.png|Handwritten letter, 1792
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|German Kurrent}}
- [http://www.kurrent.de/_html/schreibschrift.htm German handwriting Schrift] {{in lang|de}} Overview and examples of {{lang|de|Kurrent}} by N. A. Powell
- [http://www.deutsche-schrift.beepworld.de/ German language page about {{lang|de|Kurrent|nocat=y}}, with history of German cursive handwriting and {{lang|de|Kurrent|nocat=y}}]
- [http://www.bryld.dk/filer/manugot19.ttf Another version, by Lars Erik Bryld, called Manu Gothica]
- [http://peter-wiegel.de/18thCentury.html Yet another version, by Peter Wiegel]
- [https://archivfuehrer-kolonialzeit.de/index.php/font-tool?sf_culture=en Kurrent-Schreibmaschine – Old German typewriter] An online assistant for better reading Kurrent
=In German Wikipedia=
- {{lang|de|Eszett}} (letter ß)
- {{lang|de|Sütterlin}} handwriting
- {{lang|de|Grundschrift}} handwriting
{{European calligraphy}}
{{List of writing systems}}
{{Authority control}}