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: