Georg Friedrich Benecke (10 June 1762, in Mönchsroth – 21 August 1844, in Göttingen)[1] 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.[2] In 1814 he became a full professor at Göttingen, and later on, acquired duties as a head librarian.[1]
His studies most notably involved old German and English literature.[1] 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
edit- Beyträge zur Kenntniss der altdeutschen Sprache und Litteratur, 1810.
- Minnelieder. Ergänzung der Sammlung von Minnesingern, Göttingen 1810.
- Der Edel Stein / getichtet von Bonerius, aus Handschriften berichtigt und mit einem Wörterbuch versehen, Berlin 1816.
- Wigalois von Wirnt von Gravenberch, Berlin 1819.
- Iwein. Der Riter mit dem Lewen von Hartmann von Aue, (with Karl Lachmann), Berlin 1827.
- Wörterbuch zu Hartmanns Iwein, 1833.
- Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (with Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke,[3] published posthumously; Leipzig 1854–66, 4 parts).
External links and references
edit- Georg Friedrich Benecke in the German National Library catalogue
- ^ a b c biography @ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4th Edition. Volume 2, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1885-1892, p 681st.
- ^ De.Wikisource @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Georg Friedrich Benecke
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