Moritz Heyne (June 8, 1837 in
Weißenfels
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His ...
– March 1, 1906 in
Göttingen
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) was a German
Germanic linguist
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(''
Germanist
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'').
He taught as a
professor
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at the
University of Halle
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(1869-1870),
University of Basel
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(1870-),
University of Göttingen
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(1883-).
He worked with
Jakob Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of th ...
to edit his dictionary after 1867.
Literary works
* ''Laut- und Flexionslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte'', 1862
* ''Beowulf: Angelsächsisches Heldengedicht'', 1863
* ''
Heliand
The ''Heliand'' () is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means ''saviour'' in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch ''Heiland'' meaning "saviour"), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the ...
'', 1866
* ''Deutsches Wörterbuch'', 3 vols., 1890-1895
* ''
Ruodlieb
''Ruodlieb'' is a fragmentary romance in Latin verse written by an unknown southern German poet who flourished about 1030. He was almost certainly a monk of the Bavarian Tegernsee Abbey.
The poem is one of the earliest German romances of knight ...
'', 1897
1837 births
1906 deaths
Germanists
Germanic studies scholars
Linguists of Germanic languages
Heyne Moritz
University of Göttingen faculty
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