Johann Christian August Heyse

Johann Christian August Heyse (1764–1829) was a German grammarian and lexicographer, born at Nordhausen and educated at Göttingen. He taught at Oldenburg, Nordhausen, and Magdeburg. He wrote:

  • Allgemeines Fremdwörterbuch (seventeenth edition, 1892)
  • Deutsche Schulgrammatik, under the new title, Deutsche Grammatik (twenty-sixth edition by Lyon, 1900)
  • Leitfaden zum Unterricht in der deutschen Sprache (twenty-seventh edition, 1904)
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Name Heyse, Johann Christian August
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Date of death 1829
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