Die Sprachkenntnisse von Faust Vrančić im Licht seines fünfsprachigen Dictionariums.

The Croatian Faust Vrančić published a five-language dictionary (Latin-Italian-German-Croatian-Hungarian) in the year 1595. This study examines to what extent the author knew these languages, apart from Latin. Not only does it scrutinise the knowledge of words of Vrančić but it also restores his awareness of the rules of the different languages, relying us several linguistic data. Vrančić must have had an excellent and active command of all the four languages, as the study finds it. The only difference in his awareness of languages can merely be pointed out in his vocabulary, concerning each. He knew the Hungarian language best and the Croatian language least. It can also be pointed out that the author was very resourceful in the field of lexicography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]