Education
University of Göttingen.
Librarian linguist university professor
University of Göttingen.
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).
His preliminary work on a collection of Middle High German words was edited and published by Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Zarncke after his death ("Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch").