Georg Friedrich Benecke Explained

Georg Friedrich Benecke (10 June 1762, in Mönchsroth – 21 August 1844, in Göttingen) 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.^[1] In 1814 he became a full professor at Göttingen, and later on, acquired duties as a head librarian.^[2]

His studies most notably involved old German and English literature.^[2] 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

• 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).

Notes and References

1. http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Benecke,_Georg_Friedrich De.Wikisource
2. http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=101940#Benecke biography
3. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr96-15049/ WorldCat Identities