Georg Friedrich Benecke

Georg Friedrich Benecke, by Ludwig Emil Grimm

Georg Friedrich Benecke (10 June 1762, Mönchsroth – 21 August 1844, Göttingen) was a German philologist.

Beginning in 1780, he was a student at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne.[1] In 1814 he became a full professor at Göttingen, and later on, acquired duties as a head librarian.[2]

His studies most notably involved old German and English literature.[2] He was editor of a dictionary to Hartmann von Aue's Ywain (1874). His preliminary work on a collection of Middle High German words was edited and published by Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke after his death ("Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch").

Selected works

External links and references

  1. De.Wikisource @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. 1 2 biography @ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4th Edition. Volume 2, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1885-1892, p 681st.
  3. WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Georg Friedrich Benecke


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