Josua Maaler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josua Maaler

Swiss pastor and lexicographer

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1529

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 05-Jun-1599

Profession: theologian, lexicographer

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Josua Maaler (also Maler, Mahler, Latinized Pictorius; 1529–1599) was a Swiss pastor and lexicographer.
He was the author of the first dictionary which focussed exclusively on the German language, published in Zürich as Die Teütsch Spraach in 1561. Maaler followed the Dictionarium Latinogermanicum by Petrus Dasypodius (1536) in giving the German lemmas alphabetically, as opposed to the earlier Dictionarium Latino-Germanicum by Johannes Fries, which gave German glosses on Latin lemmas.