Julius Zacher

Ernst Julius August Zacher (5 February 1816, Obernigk – 23 March 1887, Halle an der Saale) was a German philologist.

From 1836 to 1839, he studied theology and philology at the University of Breslau, where he attended lectures on German language and literature given by Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

In 1847, he began work at the university library in Halle and assumed duties as secretary of the Thüringisch-sächsischen Vereins zur Erforschung der vaterländischen Alterthümer (Thuringian-Saxon Society for the study of Patriotic Antiquities).

[1][2] In 1853, he qualified as a lecturer at Halle with the thesis, Desquistionis grammaticae de alphabetic gothici ulphilani origine atque indoles particular.

In 1856, he became an associate professor, and three years later, transferred to Königsberg as chair of German philology and chief librarian.