Oskar Schade

Oskar Schade (25 March 1826 – 30 December 1906) 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'' (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. Provided by Wikipedia