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Jun 10, 1762 Mönchsroth, Bavaria, Germany Died on 21 Aug 1844 (aged 82)
German philologist and professor
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About Georg Friedrich Benecke
- 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").
