Moritz Heyne

Moritz Heyne, also Moriz ( born June 8, 1837 in White Rock, † March 1, 1906 in Göttingen ) was a German medievalist germanistischer and lexicographer.

Life

Heyne was the son of a rope-maker. After his school days he was " firm service " worked until he made a self-taught admission to study at the University of Halle, where he studied from 1860 to 1863 German, history and philology. In 1864 he qualified as a professor and was in Hall worked as a lecturer.

In 1869 he was appointed to the chair of German at the University of Basel and in 1870 successor to the professor Wilhelm Wackernagel ( 1806-1869 ). Heyne became the Director of the Historical Museum Basel.

In 1883, Heyne changes to the Georg -August- University of Göttingen on the specially created professorship for him to pursue exclusively the work begun in 1867 with Jacob Grimm in the publication of its German Dictionary. He was responsible for the volumes of 4.2, 6, 8, 9 and 10.1.

Between 1890 and 1895, Heyne himself gave out a three-volume German dictionary. He was the founder of the Municipal antiquity collection in Göttingen, now the Municipal Museum.

Heyne was a Freemason. In 1869 he became a member of the lodge to the three swords in Halle, 1871, the lodge to friendship and resistance in Basel and in 1884 the Lodge Augusta to the golden circle in Göttingen; in the latter lodge he took over in 1887 the Office of the Worshipful Master.

In 1906 he became Professor Emeritus.

Tributes and remembrance

In Göttingen, Göttingen is located since 1953 a plaque that is attached to its 1885 built residential house in the Wöhlerstraße 6.

Works

  • According to the Old Germanic dialects and Flexionslehre, 1862
  • Beovulf, 1863 (Translation ) (2nd edition 1898 ULB Münster)
  • Heliand, 1866
  • German Dictionary, 3 vols, 1890-1895
  • Ruodlieb, 1897 (Translation )
  • Altdt. - lat. Spielmann poems of the 10th century, 1900 (Translation )
  • Five Books German house antiquities from the earliest historical times to the 16th Century: Volume 1: The German Housing, 1899; Volume 2: The German food services, 1901; Volume 3: Hygiene and clothing, 1903 [ the projected band 4 is only partially and band 5 is no longer published ]
  • The German craft, 1908 ( posthumously edited by B. Crome - The work forms the first section of the fourth volume of the 'Five Books German house Antiquities " )
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