Georg Friedrich Benecke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Friedrich Benecke

German philologist and professor

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1762

Place of Birth: Mönchsroth, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1844

Profession: librarian, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Georg Friedrich Benecke (10 June 1762, Mönchsroth – 21 August 1844, 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.
In 1814 he became a full professor at Göttingen, and later on, acquired duties as a head librarian.His studies most notably involved old German and English literature.
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").



Alternative names	ludwig emil grimm; l. e. grimm; ludwig grimm
Description	German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death	14 March 1790	4 April 1863
Location of birth/death	Hanau	Kassel
Work period	circa 1805-1860
Work location	Kassel (1803-1809), Landshut, Munich (1809-1817), Kassel (1832-1863)
Authority control	: Q558766 VIAF: 39396912 ISNI: 0000 0001 1057 0507 ULAN: 500015140 LCCN: n85222439 NLA: 35971884 WorldCat