Georg Friedrich Benecke [SEP] place of death
Georg Friedrich Benecke
Georg Friedrich Benecke (10 June 1762, Mönchsroth – 21 August 1844, Göttingen) was a German philologist. 
Beginning in 1780, he was a student at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne. In 1814 he became a full professor at Göttingen, and later on, acquired duties as a head librarian. 
His studies most notably involved old German and English literature. He was editor of a dictionary to Hartmann von Aue's "Ywain" (1874
from 1784 to 1796, Lichtenberg's commentaries on the work of William Hogarth. These were republished between 1794 and 1799.
- Jacob Grimm's "Deutsche Grammatik", "Weisthümern", and others
- Works by Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Gottfried Müller, Heinrich Albert Zachariä, Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Friedrich Benecke, Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin
Bibliography.
- Elisabeth Willnat: "Johann Christian Dieterich. ein Verlagsbuchhändler und Drucker in der Zeit der Aufklärung". Buchhändler