Matthias von Lexer

Matthias Lexer, since 1885 Ritter von Lexer ( born October 18, 1830 in Liesing in Lesachtal, Austria, † April 16, 1892 in Nuremberg) was a Bavarian germanistischer medievalist and lexicographer.

Life

After a grammar school education, which he completed in 1851 with the matriculation examination, Lexer in Graz began to study law. However, after a short time he moved on to the German Philology, during which he began to investigate the dialectal vocabulary of Carinthia.

Between 1855 and 1857 Lexer worked as a substitute teacher at the German School in Krakow to Berlin to continue his education under teachers such as Franz Bopp, Moriz main or Karl Müllenhoff thereafter. In 1860 he earned his doctorate at the University of Erlangen upon presentation of his now completed Kärntischen dictionary. 1863 Lexer began as an associate professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau to work, 1868, he accepted a professorship at the University of Würzburg, where he was elected two years later in the Senate.

From 1868 Lexer devoted to the preparation of his Middle High German hand dictionary, which was published in 1878 in three volumes. 1879 was finally published the first edition of his Middle High German pocket dictionary, six years later its third edition as last hand. In the years 1881-1889 Lexer worked on the continuation of the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm, from 1882 to 1886 he edited also the chronicle of Johannes Aventinus Baierische.

Lexer in 1885 awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and levied under the Order Statutes as a knight of Lexer in the personal nobility. In 1890 he was appointed to the supreme council of the kingdom of Bavaria.

Shortly after Matthias von Lexer in 1890 accepted a call to the University of Munich, he died on 16 April 1892 in Nuremberg at the consequences of severe pneumonia. His body was interred at the Nuremberg St. John's Cemetery.

In 1971 ( 22nd District ) was named after him in the Lexergasse Vienna Danube city, 2010 in Würzburg Matthias Lexer- way as part of the new faculty premises.

Works

  • Kärntisches Dictionary, 1862 ( digitized )
  • Mittelhochdeutsches pocket dictionary. 3 volumes. Leipzig from 1872 to 1878. Reprints: Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0488-7 ISBN 3-7776-0487-9 and the online dictionary, supplements 1878
  • Mittelhochdeutsches pocket dictionary in the final edition (2nd Nachdr the 3rd edition v. 1885 With a foreword by Erwin Koller, Werner Wegstein and Norbert Richard Wolf and a biographical sketch by Horst Brunner Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3. . - 7776-0494-1 )
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