Bertha Phillpotts
Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts , DBE (born October 25, 1877 in Bedford , Bedfordshire , England , † January 20, 1932 in Cambridge , Cambridgeshire ) was a British Scandinavian .
biography
After attending school, she studied medieval and modern languages from 1898 to 1902 at Girton College , the first college for women in England . She was then a research student in Iceland and Denmark between 1903 and 1906 . On her return to Great Britain she was initially a librarian at Girton College, before she was secretary to the curator of the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Anatole von Hügel , between 1909 and 1913 .
In 1913 she was appointed the first Lady Carlisle Fellow at Somerville College . From 1916 to 1920 she was secretary to the British Ambassador to Sweden Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith .
On her return to Great Britain, she was appointed Principal of Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London in 1920. Two years later she returned to her alma mater and was director (mistress) of Girton College from 1922 to 1925.
Most recently, from 1926 until her death, she was lecturer and director of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Cambridge . She devoted herself in particular to Icelandic literature .
For her services she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1929 . In 1931, a year before her death, she married the astronomer Hugh Frank Newell (1857–1944).
Works
Her most significant publications include:
- Surt . In: Axel Kock, et al. (Ed.): Arkiv för nordisk filologi (ANF) . New episode, volume 17 (= band 21 of the complete edition). CWK Gleerups förlag, Lund 1905, p. 14–30 (multilingual, runeberg.org - English-language contribution to Surt ).
- Kindred and Clan in the Middle Ages and after. A study in the sociology of the Teutonic races. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1913 ( archive.org ).
- The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1920, reprinted 2008, ISBN 978-1-178-49173-9 ( archive.org ).
- Edda and Saga. 1931.
literature
- Phillpotts, Dame Bertha Surtees 1877-1932. In: Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1199 ( chambers.co.uk ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Beck, Heiko Uecker: Studies on Old Germanic. 1994, ISBN 3-11-012978-7 , p. 94 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phillpotts, Bertha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillpotts, Dame Bertha Surtees (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Scandinavian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bedford |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1932 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |