Ar Frydrichas Vilhelmas Hakas – vadinamojo Prahos rankraštinio žodyno autorius?
Is Friedrich Wilhelm Haack the Author of the So-Called Prague Manuscript Dictionary?

Summary/Abstract: The issue of authorship of the so-called Prague manuscript German-Lithuanian Dictionary (first half of the 18th century) which was found by Ilya Lemeshkin in the National Library of the Czech Republic few years ago (NK ČR: XVI.F.30) is analyzed in the article. The aim of the article is to investigate if the lexicographer and Evangelical Lutheran priest of Lithuania Minor Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (1707–1754) could be the author of the dictionary. Such an assumption is preconditioned due to the provenience at the beginning of the manuscript which states ‘Auctor Hacke’. In order to answer this question the article discusses if the ‘Hacke’ mentioned in the donation inscription could be identified with Friedrich Wilhelm Haack; also the character of dictionary text is examined and the relation to other manuscript German-Lithuanian dictionaries of Lithuania Minor is briefly reviewed; based on Haack’s autographs found in German archives his handwriting is compared to the handwriting of the rewriter of the Prague Dictionary.

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