Ernst Wülcker


Ernst Wülcker was a German archivist and lexicographer. He was an older brother of philologist Richard Paul Wülker.
He studied classical philology and Germanistics at the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and in 1870 was named secretary at the Frankfurt city archives. In 1875, he relocated to Weimar as first secretary of the private and city archives. In 1888 he was promoted to the archival council in Weimar.

Published works

With Lorenz Diefenbach, he was author of the Hoch- und nieder-deutsches Wörterbuch der mittleren und neueren Zeit, and from 1886 to 1895 made contributions to the Deutsches Wörterbuch. He was also the author of twenty biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Other written efforts by Wülcker include: