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

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and Germanist born in

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. In 1860, he received his habilitation at Halle, and from 1863 to 1906 was a professor at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

. 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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