Moritz Heyne

Moritz Heyne

Moritz Heyne (8 June 1837 in Weißenfels – 1 March 1906 in Göttingen) was a German Germanic linguist (Germanist).

He taught as a professor at the University of Halle (1869-1870), University of Basel (1870-), University of Göttingen (1883-).

He worked with Jakob Grimm to edit his dictionary after 1867.

He published a 3-volume work titled 'Ancient Objects of the German Domestic Home' starting in 1899, which was a pioneering work in material cultural studies.[1]

Literary works

  • Laut- und Flexionslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte, 1862
  • Deutsches Wörterbuch, 3 vols., 1890-1895

Editions

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Scholkmann (2013). "The discovery of the hidden Middle Ages: the research history of medieval archaeology in Germany" (PDF). European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. 3.