Antesperg, Johann Balthasar von#

b. Wiesing (Germany), 1682, d. Vienna, Aug. 31, 1765; among the first Austrian grammarians; he wrote the grammar book "Das Josephinische Erzherzogliche A. B. C. Oder Namenbuechlein" for his pupil, later Emperor Joseph II (1741, reprint published by G. Mraz 1980); wrote the "Kayserliche Deutsche Grammatik" (1747, even before J. C. Gottsched´s notable grammar publication "Sprachkunst"), including Austrian vernacular forms of German.