Julius Zupitza

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

Life

Julius Zupitza was the son of Major Andrew Zupitza and his wife Adelheid nee Albrecht.

He was active as a lecturer since 1869 and represented the German Breslauer with lectures on the history of the German heroic saga, German language and literature, until he was appointed in 1872 as Professor of North Germanic languages ​​at the University of Vienna. On April 21, 1876 Zupitza was appointed the first full professor of English Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Zupitza was 30 years old when his Old and Middle English exercise book was published, that came out already in 5th edition two years after his death, 1897. He was since 1889 Vice President of the German Shakespeare Society and in 1893 received an honorary doctorate at the University of Cambridge.