Georg Baesecke

Georg Paul Baesecke (13 January 1876 – 1 May 1951) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies, particularly the study of Old High German literature. He was Professor and Chair of German Philology at the University of Halle.

Biography George Baesecke was born in Braunschweig, Germany on 13 January 1876. After graduating from the Martino-Katharineum gymnasium in Braunschweig, Baesecke studies classical philology, German philology and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Heidelberg. He received his PhD in Göttingen in 1899 under the supervision of Gustav Roethe. He received his habilitation at Berlin in 1905.

Baesecke was appointed associate professor at the University of Berlin in 1911. Baesecke taught at the University of Königsberg since 1913, and was appointed Professor and Chair of German Philology at the University of Halle in 1921. Baesecke specialized in the study of Old High German literature. From 1933, he was a member of the NSDAP. He became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1938, and ultimately retired in 1948. He received the Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg in 1950.

Selected works Die Sprache der opitzischen Gedichtsammlungen von 1624 und 1625, 1899 Der Münchener Oswald Text und Abhandlung, 1907 Reinhart Fuchs, 1926 Der deutsche Abrogans und die Herkunft des deutschen Schrifttums, 1930 Der Vocabularius Sti.Galli in der angelsächsischen Mission, 1933 Das Hildebrandlied, 1945 Vor- und Frühgeschichte des deutschen Schrifttums, 1950–1953 Kleinere Schriften zur althochdeutschen Sprache und Literatur, 1966