Jakob Schipper
Jakob Markus Schipper (born July 19, 1842 in Friedrich-Augustengroden, Office of Tetten , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , today in the municipality of Wangerland ; † January 20, 1915 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian philologist and English specialist .
Life
Schipper came from a farming family. He studied languages at the University of Bonn , Paris, Rome and the University of Oxford . From 1872 to 1877 he held a professorship in English at the Albertus University in Königsberg , whereupon he moved to the University of Vienna as a full professor for English philology in 1877 . In Vienna he became a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1887 . In 1901/02 Schipper was rector of the University of Vienna. In 1913 Schipper retired.
In 1863 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity .
Create
Schipper participated in the revision of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Joseph Bosworth (1788–1876). From 1895 to 1900 he published the Vienna Contributions to English Philology . His work Englische Metrik (1881-88) was important, which he supplemented in later years with the Grundriß der Englische Metrik ( 1895), On the Critique of the Shakespeare-Bacon Question (1889), and The Bacon-Bacillus (1896). Schipper is responsible for editions of the Alexis legend (1877-1887) and poems by William Dunbar .
Awards
Schipper received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh , Aberdeen and St. Andrews .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 176.
- ↑ http://www.allemannia.de/fileadmin/bilder_inhalt/Dateien/Max_Weber_Allemannia_Reinbach.pdf
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Schipper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Herbert Koziol : Schipper Jakob, Anglist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 160 f. (Direct links on p. 160 , p. 161 ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schipper, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schipper, Jakob Markus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian philologist and English specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrich-Augustengroden, Office of Tetten , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1915 |
| Place of death | Vienna |