Georg Friedrich Benecke

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Georg Friedrich Benecke, lithograph by Adolf Kunike
Georg Friedrich Benecke. Engraving by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1823)
Göttingen memorial plaque for Georg Friedrich Benecke

Georg Friedrich Benecke (born June 10, 1762 in Mönchsroth , Principality of Öttingen , † August 21, 1844 in Göttingen ) was a German philologist who dealt with German literature of the Middle Ages .

Life

Benecke moved to the University of Göttingen in 1780 , where he became a full professor in 1814 and a sub- librarian in 1815 . In 1830 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1835 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He died as senior librarian in Göttingen on August 21, 1844. His studies mainly extended to old German and English literature; He was one of the first to make the former a subject of academic lectures. In his writings belonging here, he shows himself to be an astute explainer of Middle High German poets, especially in lexical terms. From 1828 he edited the Göttingen scholarly advertisements with Heeren . Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke used his postponed preparatory work for a collection of the Middle High German dictionary in the Middle High German dictionary .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the old German language and literature , Göttingen 1810 and 1832 ( part 1 in the Google book search, part 2 in the Google book search)
  • Minneieder. Addition to the collection of Minnesingers , Göttingen 1810 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • The precious stone / written by Bonerius , corrected from manuscripts and provided with a dictionary , Berlin 1816
  • Wigalois von Wirnt von Gravenberch , Berlin 1819
  • Iwein . The Riter with Lewen von Hartmann von Aue , with Karl Lachmann , Berlin 1827 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Dictionary for Hartmanns Iwein , Göttingen 1833; 2nd edition by Wilken, 1874

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 35.
  2. ^ Member entry by Georg Friedrich Benecke at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Middle High German Dictionary, elaborated using the estate of Georg Benecke. by Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke. 4 parts. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854-66 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Jeremias David Reuss Director of the Göttingen University Library
1838–1844 		Karl Hoeck

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personal data
SURNAME Benecke, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchsroth
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1844
Place of death Goettingen