Oskar Schade (25 March 1826 – 30 December 1906) was a German

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and

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born in

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. In 1860, he received his habilitation at

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, and from 1863 to 1906 was a professor at the

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. He was the author of the influential ''Altdeutsches Wörterbuch'' (Old German Dictionary), and with

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(1798-1874), was co-editor of the ''Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst'' (

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Annals of

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and art). Other noted works by Schade include: * ''Geistliche Gedichte des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts vom Niederrhein'' (Spiritual poems from the 14th and 15th century of the

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), 1854. * ''Satiren und Pasquille aus der Reformationszeit'' (Pasquille and satire from the time of the

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), 1863. * ''Deutsche Handwerkslieder'', 1865.

References

* Matthias Janssen: Oskar Schade (1826-1096). In: Jahrbuch der Albertus-Universität Königsberg Bd. XXIX (1994). Hg. von Dietrich Rauschning und Donata v. Nerée. S. 185-202. * Matthias Janssen: Jacob Grimm und einer seiner Schüler. Der Briefwechsel mit Oskar Schade. In: Brüder Grimm Gedenken 13 (1999), S. 105-120. * Matthias Janssen: Oskar Schade. In: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Hrsg. von Christoph König. Berlin 2003. Bd. 3, S. 1574-1576.

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