Ernst Wülcker

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Ernst Wülcker (born August 24, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 16, 1895 in Weimar ) was a German specialist in German studies , historian and archivist .

Life

Friedrich Ernst Wülcker was the son of a wealthy silver goods dealer. His father was the owner of the silver goods store JHP Schott Söhne in Frankfurt am Main. Ernst's younger brother was Richard Wülcker , who later became professor of English language and literature at the University of Leipzig (he wrote himself Wülker from 1884). Their father aroused their interest in literature and science at an early age. There was also an extensive library in the parental home.

Ernst Wülcker first attended the lower classes of the model school in his hometown and received private lessons from Adolf Torstrik . Since Easter 1856 he went to the Frankfurt high school . From 1862 to 1865 Wülcker studied Classical Philology and German at the University of Göttingen and until Easter 1868 at the University of Leipzig. He spent two winter semesters with Lorenz Diefenbach studying linguistics in his parents' house. In Göttingen he belonged to the Brunsviga fraternity and edited the beer newspaper . In Leipzig he still dealt intensively with Sanskrit . In 1868 he received his doctorate at Leipzig University with the dissertation Observations in the field of vocal weakening in Central German, especially in Hessian and Thuringian . Wülcker continued his research on the older Central German dialects in Marburg and Frankfurt am Main.

In Frankfurt he was to be employed as the presumptive successor of Georg Ludwig Kriegk at the Frankfurt City Archives . Wülcker refused at first because he was at Leipzig University habilitieren wanted. He later renounced an academic career and entered the Frankfurt archive as a secretary in 1870. While working at the Frankfurt City Archives, he published articles on the documents and letters relating to the Armagnak procession from 1439-1444 (Frankfurt 1873) and documents and files relating to the siege of the city of Neuss on the Rhine in 1474 in the New Year's papers of the Association for History and Antiquity in Frankfurt -1475 (Frankfurt 1877). The High and Low German dictionary of the middle and more recent times , which was undertaken jointly with Lorenz Diefenbach and was also published as part of the Documenta linguistica (series of 3rd dictionaries of the 19th and 20th centuries), was also started in the Frankfurt period and completed after eleven years of work . For the dictionary, for which he edited the letters D to Z, he evaluated archive materials, manuscripts and rare printed works from the 14th to 18th centuries. He was able to fall back on sources from the city library and the city archive in Frankfurt, whereby he also took into account the Central German, especially the Franconian, dialects.

In 1875 Wülcker became the first archive secretary at the Secret Main and State Archives in Weimar. In the same year he married Bertha Fenner, the daughter of a senior judge in Weimar. In 1877 he was promoted to archivist and in 1888 to archivist . In Weimar he began working on the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm . From 1886 to 1895 he was responsible for editing the letter V of Volume 12. The German-Romance section of the 37th Philologists' Assembly in Dessau in 1884 elected Wülcker, together with Max Rieger and Hermann Paul, to a philological examination committee for the German sample Bible, to which he submitted an opinion in 1885 ( opinion on the sample Bible , Halle 1885). As an author for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , he wrote numerous articles, mainly biographies of the Saxon dukes.

Ernst Wülcker died of a stroke in Weimar on September 16, 1895, at the age of 52 . As early as 1894 he had a minor stroke that forced him to take a longer vacation. He has summarized his studies and experiences in the field of archival science in a work that he never saw the completion of: the issuing of certificates and the language of the Ernestine electors . Wülcker's estate included other linguistic, archival and lexical works, including the unfinished manuscripts on a large-scale grammar of the Frankfurt city dialect .

Publications (selection)

  • 25. German dictionary . V - twisted. as editor, DTV, Munich 1999; ISBN 3-423-59045-9 .
  • Reports from the Reich regiment in Nuremberg 1521-1523. Teubner, Leipzig 1899. and Olms, Hildesheim 1979; ISBN 3-487-06843-5 .
  • High and Low German dictionary of the middle and modern times. together with Lorenz Diefenbach , Schwabe, Basel 1885. and Olms, Hildesheim 1965.
  • The emergence of the Saxon office language. Frommann, Jena 1878.
  • Documents and files pertaining to the siege of the city of Neuss am Rheine between 1474 and 1475. Association for history and antiquity, Frankfurt am Main 1877.
  • Documents and letters concerning the train of the Armagnaks. 1439-1444. Association for history and antiquity, Frankfurt am Main 1873.

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SURNAME Wülcker, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wülcker, Friedrich Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1895
Place of death Weimar