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Wrede, Ferdinand (1863–1934)

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Ferdinand Wrede was born in Berlin and, after having received his doctor's degree, he was a collaborator on the Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs [Linguistic atlas of the ‘Deutsches Reich’] project in Marburg, and later on, full Professor of Germanic philology. Wrede's fundamental studies first were concerned with Germanic: the languages of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. In 1908, he founded the series Deutsche Dialektgeographie in which dialect monographs, mostly on the basis of direct investigations (other than Wenker's indirect method), were published. He initiated many scientific projects, e.g., the Hessen-Nassauisches Worterbuch, an area dialect dictionary, he interpreted dialect maps, expanded dialect research over all German dialects in Central Europe and classified the German dialects on the basis of the Deutscher Sprachatlas, which he began to edit in 1926.