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Wilhelm Braune
1850–1926
A leading German philologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he helped shape the study of Old High German and Gothic. His grammars became standard reference works for generations of students and scholars.
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A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary
by Wilhelm Braune
About the author
Born in 1850 and later active at the universities of Leipzig, Giessen, and Heidelberg, Wilhelm Braune was a German philologist and Germanist known for rigorous work on early Germanic languages. He is commonly associated with the Neogrammarian movement, which pushed historical language study toward more systematic methods.
Braune is best remembered for influential grammars of Gothic and Old High German, along with editorial work that supported the close study of medieval German texts. Those books were widely used and helped make difficult early sources more accessible to students.
He died in 1926 in Heidelberg. Even today, his name remains familiar in medieval German studies because several of his scholarly works continued to be revised, reprinted, and cited long after his lifetime.