Josua Maaler

Josua Maaler (also ''Maler, Mahler'', Latinized ''Pictorius''; 1529–1599) was a Swiss pastor and lexicographer. He was the author of the first dictionary which focused 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. Provided by Wikipedia