Moritz Heyne

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Moritz Heyne
Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: Heyne grave

Moritz Heyne - even Moriz Heyne written - (* 8. June 1837 in Weissenfels , † 1. March 1906 in Goettingen ) was a German germanistischer medievalist and lexicographer .

Life

Heyne was the son of a master rope maker. After completing his schooling at the Latin school in Halle / Saale, which he left early for financial reasons after completing primary school, he worked in the “office service” in the judicial administration from 1857 to 1860, until he was admitted to the University of Halle as an autodidact . Here he studied German literature, history and classical philology from 1860 to 1863. He received his doctorate in 1863 with a text-critical edition of Beövulf. In 1864 he completed his habilitation and worked as a private lecturer in Halle .

In 1869 he received a call to the Department of German at the University of Basel and in 1870 successor to the professor Wilhelm Wackernagel (1806-1869). Heyne also became head of the Commission for the Medieval Collection, which later became the Basel Historical Museum.

In 1883 Heyne switched to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to the professorship created especially for him in order to pursue exclusively the work with Jakob Grimm, which had begun in 1867, on the publication of his German dictionary . He was responsible for volumes 4.2, 6, 8, 9 and 10.1.

Between 1890 and 1895 Heyne himself published a three-volume German dictionary. He was the founder of the municipal antiquity collection in Göttingen, today's municipal museum .

Heyne was a Freemason . In 1869 he became a member of the Lodge Zu den Drei Degen in Halle, in 1871 the Lodge on Friendship and Resistance in Basel and in 1884 the Lodge Augusta for the golden circle in Göttingen; in the latter box he took over the office of master from the chair in 1887 .

In 1906 he retired .

Honors and souvenirs

Moritz Heyne was made an honorary citizen of the city of Basel in 1873. In Göttingen there has been a Göttingen memorial plaque since 1953 , which is attached to his house built in 1885 at Wöhlerstraße 6.

Fonts

  • Phonology and inflection theory of the old Germanic dialects, 1862 (1st edition [2] , 2nd edition 1970 , 3rd edition 1874 and 1880 )
  • Beovulf, 1863 (translation) (2nd edition 1898 ULB Münster )
  • Heliand, 1866
  • German dictionary, 3 volumes, 1890–1895 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 at archive.org)
  • Ruodlieb, 1897 (translation)
  • Old German-Latin Minstrel poems of the 10th century, 1900 (translation)
  • Five books of German household items from the earliest historical times to the 16th century. A textbook: Volume 1: The German Housing, Leipzig 1899; Volume 2: The German Food System, ibid 1901; Volume 3: Body care and clothing among the Germans, ibid 1903 [the projected volume 4 has only partially appeared and volume 5 has not been published]
    • The old German craft. Trübner, Strasbourg 1908 (edited posthumously by Bruno Crome. The work forms the first section of the 4th volume of the "Five Books of German Households")

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b cf. Ulrich Hunger: Heyne, Moritz. In: Christoph König (Ed.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Edited by Birgit Wägenbaur et al., Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin and New York 2003, Reprint 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-090805-3 , Volume 2, pp. 743f. Paid access online [1] .
  2. ^ Walter Nissen: Göttingen memorial tablets. Göttingen 1962, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Heyne, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1906
Place of death Goettingen