Dawne ortografie, gramatyki i podręczniki języka polskiego
The 1790 edition of Johann Christian Krumbholz’s work is composed of his two books published earlier, namely Kurzgefasste und deutliche Deutsch-Polnische Grammatik (= A short and concise German-Polish grammar) and Deutsch-Polnisches Tirocinium (= A German-Polish phrasebook). They were both released anonymously in 1775. The first book comprises German-Polish grammar and a Polish-German dictionary. The original dictionary was published in Bojanowo probably as early as in 1769 and was addressed to the local school pupils. The original grammar, in turn, was released ca. 1770. The latter textbook, Tirocinium…, published in Wrocław in 1775, is grammatical exercises and a hundred school phrases drawn from Latin grammar and translated into Polish with vocabulary and grammatical formulas explained. The first joint edition of both textbooks comes from 1783. That and successive editions, in accordance with the author’s intention, were used and printed together and under his name. All joint editions of Kurzgefasste und deutliche Deutsch-Polnische Grammatik and Deutsch-Polnisches Tirocinium were published by Wilhelm Bogumił Korn in Wrocław and republished in 1783, 1790, 1794, and 1797. In the relevant literature, Krumbholz’s work is usually mentioned under a shortened, given its content, title Kurzgefasste und deutliche Deutsch-Polnische Grammatik. It implies that it is only a grammatical study, while in fact it contains, apart from grammar, a dictionary and exercises with phrases – three originally separate textbooks merged into one.