Daniel Sanders (lexicographer)

Sanders received his elementary education at a local Jewish school before continuing his studies at the Gymnasium Carolinum in the nearby city of Neustrelitz.

He then attended the universities of Berlin and Halle, where he studied classical and modern languages, mathematics, and natural history, ultimately earning a doctorate in philosophy.

This led to the publication of his own dictionary of the German language, Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache published from 1859 to 1865.

Sanders also expressed his views in his Katechismus der Deutschen Orthographie (1856) and was an active participant in the orthographical conference held in Berlin in 1876.

In 1887, he founded the Zeitschrift fur die Deutsche Sprache, which he continued to edit almost until his death at Altstrelitz in the spring of 1897.