Edward Schröder

Edward Schröder (18 May 1858 – 9 February 1942) was a Germanist and mediaevalist who was a professor at the University of Göttingen and published editions of numerous texts.

[3] In November 1933 he was one of the 300 academics who signed the professorial pledge of allegiance to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.

He and his lifelong friend Gustav Roethe both appear to have chosen to begin their careers at Göttingen because of its potential as a centre of rigorous Germanic studies scholarship.

[3] His focus in etymologies was on the inventors of the words, and he sought whenever possible to relate a placename to an event in the life of a person who had originated it.

[1][8] Schröder was a member of the Academies of Sciences of Göttingen, Prussia, Austria and Bavaria and of the Strasburg Scientific Society in Heidelberg, an honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America and the Historical Association of Lower Saxony, was appointed a Geheimer Regierungsrat in 1907, and was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown 3rd class in 1913 and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1927.