Oskar Schade

Oskar Schade (March 25, 1826 – December 30, 1906) was a German philologist and Germanist who was born in Erfurt.

In 1860 he received his habilitation at Halle, and from 1863 to 1906 was a professor at the University of Königsberg. He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874) was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German Language, Literature 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 Lower Rhine), (1854)
• Satiren und Pasquille aus der Reformationszeit (Pasquille and Satire from the Time of the Reformation) (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.

• Biography (German)
• Open Library, Publications by Author

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Name	Schade, Oskar
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Date of birth	March 25, 1826
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Date of death	December 30, 1906
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