Oskar Schade

Who was Oskar Schade?

Oskar Schade was a German philologist and Germanist 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, and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst. Other noted works by Schade include:

Geistliche Gedichte des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts vom Niederrhein, 1854.

Satiren und Pasquille aus der Reformationszeit, 1863.

Deutsche Handwerkslieder, 1865.