Matthias Lexer (18 October 1830 – 16 April 1892), later Matthias von Lexer (from 1885), was a German lexicographer, author of the principal dictionary of the

Middle High German Middle High German (MHG; german: Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High German and into Early New High German. High ...

language, ''Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Matthias Lexer'', completed in 1878 in three volumes. This dictionary was founded upon the base of the ''Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch'' by Benecke,

Müller Müller may refer to: * ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1823) (sometimes referred to as ''Müllerlieder''; ''Müllerin'' is a female miller) is a song cycle with words by Wilhelm Müller and music by Franz Schubert * Doctor Müller, fictional character ...

and Zarncke, completed in 1866 in three volumes. Matthias Lexer received a PhD in a lexicological subject at age 30 in 1860 at the University of Erlangen, where one of his teachers was the historian

Karl von Hegel Friedrich Wilhelm Karl, Ritter von Hegel (7 June 1813 – 5 December 1901) was a German historian and son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. During his lifetime he was a well-known and well-reputed historian who received many awards ...

. From then onward he held teaching positions at German universities. "The Middle High German dictionary f Matthias Lexeris noted for its admirably comprehensive coverage of the language of courtly literature.... t has somegaps in its medical and scientific vocabulary, and the coverage of legal terminology."Graeme Dunphy, "Matthias Lexer", in: Albrecht Classen (ed.), ''Handbook of Medieval Studies'', Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, pp. 2471–7
(quoted from page 2474)

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Matthias Lexer's Middle High German dictionary online
(searchable by headword) at Woerterbuchnetz.de. German lexicographers German philologists 1830 births 1892 deaths 19th-century lexicographers {{Germany-linguist-stub