Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...
– 16 September 1895, in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg an ...
) was a German
archivist
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and
lexicographer
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
* Theoretica ...
. He was an older brother of philologist
Richard Paul Wülker
Richard Paul Wülker, until 1884 surname spelled as Wülcker (29 July 1845, in Frankfurt – 8 August 1910, in Leipzig) was a German Anglist.
He studied German and English philology at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and following milita ...
(1845–1910).
He studied
classical philology
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Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...
and
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
, and in 1870 was named secretary at the Frankfurt city archives. In 1875, he relocated to Weimar as first secretary of the private and city archives. In 1888 he was promoted to the archival council in Weimar.ADB:Wülcker, Ernst In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, S. 559–562.
Published works
With
Lorenz Diefenbach
Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Butzbach, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the Pan-Germanism, German Nationalist ...
, he was author of the ''Hoch- und nieder-deutsches Wörterbuch der mittleren und neueren Zeit'' (" High and
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dictionary of medieval and modern times"), and from 1886 to 1895 made contributions to the ''
Deutsches Wörterbuch
The ''Deutsches Wörterbuch'' (; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated ''DWB'', is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence.Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''. Other written efforts by Wülcker include:
* ''Urkunden und Schreiben betreffend den Zug der Armagnaken (1439–1444)'', 1873 – Documents and writings concerning the campaign of the Armagnacs (1439–1444).
* ''Urkunden und Acten betreffend die Belagerung der Stadt Neuss am Rheine (1474–75)'', 1877 – Documents and acts concerning the Siege of Neuss am Rhein, 1474–75.
* ''Die Entstehung der kursächsischen Kanzleisprache'', 1878 – The emergence of the Saxon Chancellery language.
* ''Die Verdienste der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft um die deutsche Sprache'', 1888.Most widely held works by Ernst Wülcker WorldCat Identities