Julius Zupitza

Julius Zupitza (born January 4, 1844 in Kerpen , Neustadt district , Upper Silesia , † July 6, 1895 in Berlin ) was a German English scholar and the founder of English philology in Germany.

Life

Julius Zupitza was the son of Major Andreas Zupitza and his wife Adelheid, née Albrecht.

He had been a private lecturer since 1869 and represented Wroclaw German studies with lectures on the history of German heroism, German language and literature, until he was appointed professor for North Germanic languages at the University of Vienna in 1872 . On April 21, 1876, Zupitza was appointed the first full professor of English philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Zupitza was 30 years old when his Old and Middle English exercise book appeared, the fifth edition of which came out two years after his death in 1897. From 1889 he was Vice President of the German Shakespeare Society and received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1893 .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Zupitza, Julius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1891, pp. 315–317 ( digitized version ).
Edward Schröder : Zupitza, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 501-503.
Arnold Schröer: From the early days of English philology . I. Personal memories and impressions, in: Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift 15 (1925), pp. 32–51.
Richard Utz: Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology . A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793–1948. Brepols, Turnhout 2002, therein pp. 73–126: "The Founding Fathers: Julius Zupitza and Bernhard ten Brink."

Web links

Literature by and about Julius Zupitza in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Zupitza, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kerpen in Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	July 6, 1895
Place of death	Berlin