Israel Gollancz

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Israel Gollancz

Israel Gollancz (born July 13, 1864 in London ; died June 23, 1930 there ) was an English philologist and literary scholar who researched, among other things, the research of Middle English writings and the works of William Shakespeare .

Life

Gollancz was born as the youngest son of the rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz (1820-1900) and his wife Johanna Koppell. He attended the City of London School, University College in London and Christ's Church College in Cambridge . From 1892 to 1895 he was a lecturer at the University College ( English Quain English Student and Lecturer ). In the following year he took up a position as a university professor at Cambridge and taught English . He then received a chair at King's College in London in 1905 .

Gollancz was also a founding member of the British Academy and from 1902 until his death first secretary and chairman of the committee of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater. He was also the director of the Early English Text Society. He was active as a researcher of medieval texts. His works included, in addition to the adaptation of Christ von Cynewulf, the translations of some of the manuscripts of Cotton Nero Ax , including the poem Pearl and the chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight into modern English. He also helped create the Dictionary of National Biography and wrote treatises on the works of Shakespeare.

He was a member of several learned societies, including chairman of the British Shakespeare Association and from 1910 to 1922 president of the Philological Society . He also participated in the drawing up of a plan for a national theater in London and campaigned for the establishment of the "Cervantes Chair in Spanish" and the "Camoens Chair in Portuguese" at King's College. In 1910 Gollancz received the Albert Kahn Traveling Fellowship supported by Albert Kahn together with Sidney Ball from St. John's College in Oxford . In 1919 he became a member of the Real Academia Española and in 1927 a member of the Medieval Academy of America . He was Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society and Leofric Lecturer at University College in Exeter. From 1894 to 1896 he was editor of The Temple Shakespeare, which was published in 40 volumes . In 1919 Gollancz was knighted.

family
  • Gollancz was the brother of Hermann Gollancz and an uncle of Victor Gollancz .
  • In 1910 he married the painter Alide (née Goldschmidt, 1878–1965) with whom he had a daughter Marguerite (1911–1981) and a son Oliver (1914–2004). Alide was a niece of Henriette Hertz .

Publications (selection)

  • Cynewulf's Christ, an eighth century English epic. D. Nutt, London 1892 ( archive.org ).
  • The Exeter book: an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Volume 1. Truebner, London 1895 ( archive.org ).
  • Hamlet in Iceland: being the Icelandic romantic Ambales saga. D. Nutt, London 1898 ( archive.org ).
  • A book of homage to Shakespeare. Humphrey Milford, London 1916 ( archive.org ).
  • Pearl. An English poem of the fourteenth century. GW Jones, London 1918, ( archive.org ).
  • Cleanness: an alliterative tripartite poem on the Deluge, the Destruction of Sodom, and the Death of Belshazzar, by the poet of Pearl. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1921 ( archive.org ).
  • St. Erkenwald (Bishop of London 675-693) (= Select early English poems. 4.) Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, London 1922 ( archive.org ).
  • Patience: an alliterative version of Jonah. Oxford University Press, London 1924 ( archive.org ).
  • The sources of Hamlet ( Shakespeare classics. Oxford University Press). Humphrey Milford, London 1926, OCLC 221420749 .
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Pub. For the Early English Text Society by H. Milford). Oxford University Press, London 1940, ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Foreword and glossary: The Temple Shakespeare. ( archive.org ).

Sir Israel Gollancz Prize

The "Sir Israel Gollancz Prize" named after him is awarded every two years by the British Academy for work in the fields of Anglo-Saxon or early English language and literature, English studies or the history of the English language. The prize was first awarded to the philologist Joseph Wright in 1925 . In 1937, CS Lewis was awarded this prize for his treatise The Allegory of Love . Another award named after him, "Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures", has also been awarded by the British Academy since 1924.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Israel Gollancz  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sir Israel Gollancz and the Editorial History of the Pearl Manuscript - Article excerpt on questia.com.
  2. ^ Gollancz, Sir Israel (1863–1930), literary scholar. on oxfordindex.oup.com (no full access).
  3. ↑ Julia Laura Rischbieter: Henriette Hertz: Patron and founder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08581-6 , pp. 150 and 155 ( books.google.de - family tree).
  4. ^ Sir Israel Gollancz Prize. The British Academy, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures. The British Academy, accessed November 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gollancz, Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British English and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1930
Place of death London