Jakob Schipper

Markus Jakob Schipper ( born July 19, 1842 in Frederick Augustus Groden, Office Tettens, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, today in the municipality of Wanger country; † January 20, 1915 in Vienna ) was a German -Austrian philologist and Anglist.

Life

Schipper was born into a peasant family. He studied languages ​​at the University of Bonn, Paris, Rome and the University of Oxford. From 1872 to 1877 he held a English Studies Chair at the Albertus University of Königsberg, which he joined in 1877 as a full professor of English Philology at the University of Vienna. In Vienna, he also became in 1887 member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1901/ 02 Schipper was rector of the University of Vienna. Schipper 1913 became Professor Emeritus.

Creation

Schipper took part in the revision of Joseph Bosworth's Anglo- Saxon Dictionary. From 1895 to 1900 he published the Viennese contributions to English philology. Important was his work English metric ( 1881-88 ), which he further added in later years by the outline of English prosody (1895 ), Critique of Shakespeare - Bacon question (1889 ), and The Bacon bacillus ( 1896). Schipper is responsible for editions of Alexis Legend (1877-1887) and William Dunbar's poems.

Awards

Schipper was honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and St Andrews.