Moritz Heyne
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Moritz Heyne 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.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Germanic
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.Originating about 1800 BCE from the Corded Ware Culture on the North...
linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
(Germanist).
He taught as a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at the University of Halle (1869-1870), University of Basel
University of Basel
The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country...
(1870-), University of Göttingen (1883-).
He worked with Jakob Grimm to edit his dictionary after 1867.
Literary works
- Laut- und Flexionslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte, 1862
- HeliandHeliandThe Heliand is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means saviour in Old Saxon , and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic saga...
, 1866 - Deutsches WörterbuchDeutsches WörterbuchDas Deutsche Wörterbuch / Deutsches Wörterbuch is one of the most important dictionaries of the German language...
, 3 vols., 1890-1895 - RuodliebRuodliebRuodlieb 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 abbey of Tegernsee....
, 1897
See also
- HeineHeineHeine is a German family name. The name comes from "Heinrich" or the Hebrew "Chayyim" . When mentioned without a first name it usually refers ti the poet Heinrich Heine...
, HeyneHeyneHeyne is the surname of:* Christian Gottlob Heyne , a German classical scholar and archaeologist* Ernst Bernard Heyne , German Botanist* Moritz Heyne , Germanic linguist* Paul Heyne , an American economist...
, HeinHeinHein is the surname of:* Jay Hein, director of White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives**Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation the Supreme Court case bearing his name* Jeppe Hein, Danish artist* Jotun Hein, Oxford professor...