Georg Friedrich Benecke

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

Benecke moved into 1780, the University of Göttingen, where in 1814 a full professor, assistant librarian in 1815 and died as a chief librarian there on August 21, 1844 His studies ranged preferably on old German and English literature. ; the former he has raised with first a subject of academic lectures. In his writings belonging here he shows himself as an astute commentator Middle High German poet, particularly in lexical terms. Since 1828 he edited with armies, the Göttingen scholars ads. His posthumous preliminary work on a collection of Middle High German words treasure recovered Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke in Middle High German dictionary ( Leipzig 1854-66, 4 parts).

Writings (selection )

• Contributions in writing, 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 )
• Minnelieder. Completion of the collection of Minne singers, Göttingen 1810 ( digitized in the Google Book Search )
• The gemstone / getichtet of Bonerius, corrected from manuscripts and provided with a dictionary, Berlin 1816
• Wigalois of Wirnt of Gravenberch, Berlin 1819
• Iwein. The Riter with Lewen of the Hartmann von Aue, with Karl Lachmann, Berlin 1827 ( digitized in the Google Book Search )
• Dictionary to Hartmann's Iwein, Göttingen 1833; 2nd edition of Wilken, 1874