 This dictionary is also in official use in the Italian province of South Tyrol.The first edition of the Austrian Dictionary was edited in 1951 on an initiative from the then Austrian minister of education Felix Hurdes.It replaced the old ""Regeln für die deutsche Rechtschreibung nebst Wörterbuch"", a standard work for the German orthography that dated back to pre-World War I times (1879 and 1902).