Heinrich Wesche

Heinrich Wesche (born February 8, 1904 in Hillerse , † December 4, 1978 ) was a German philologist and university professor .

Live and act

In 1954, Wesche was appointed to the chair for Low German language and literature created at the German Department of the University of Göttingen . He stayed there until his retirement in 1972. In 1954, he also took over the management of the Lower Saxony Dictionary in Göttingen .

Works (selection)

• The old high German vocabulary in the field of magic and prophecy. Niemeyer, Halle an de Saale 1940 / Verlag der Manufactur, Horn-Bad Meinberg 1997; ISBN 3-88080-966-6
• Our Lower Saxony place names. Lower Saxony State Center for Homeland Service, [Hanover] 1957
• Folk etymology in Low German family names. The Hague 1970
• The situation of Low German in the past and present. Considerations for the establishment of a Low German Institute. Bremen 1972
• Field names, their age, their passing, their emergence. Böhlau, Cologne 1975
• as editor / author together with Dieter Stellmacher , Wolfgang Jungandreas and others (Lower Saxony Dictionary Göttingen - University of Göttingen - Department for Lower Saxony Dialect Research of the Department of German Philology): Lower Saxony Dictionary. Wachholtz, Neumünster; ISBN 3-529-04602-7

literature

Wolfgang Kramer, Ulrich Scheuermann u. Dieter Stellmacher (Ed.): Commemorative publication for Heinrich Wesche. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1979.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Wesche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ostfälische Bibliothek; therein: Publication sequence of the Lower Saxony dictionary (delivery 1 to 57)