Robert Eugen Zachrisson, born 15 January 1880 in
Karlskrona
Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Swed ...
, Sweden and died 28 July 1937,
was a Swedish
philologist.
Zachrisson became a student in 1900, Bachelor of Arts in 1902,
Licentiate of Philosophy in 1908, PhD and Associate Professor in the English language in 1909, all at the
University of Lund. He was from 1910 to 1921 a Lecturer in German and English at the
Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm, and was named to the professorship of English in Uppsala in 1911 and in Gothenburg in 1913 as the professor of English at the
University of Uppsala. There his students included
Rune Forsberg
Rune Forsberg (1908–20 September 1997) was a Swedish scholar of Old English.
Life
Forsberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1927, graduating with a master's degree (Fil.mag.) in 1932, a licentiate (Fil.lic.) in 1938, and a doctorate (PhD) ...
.
[Karl Inge Sandred, 'Rune Forsberg 1908–1997', ''Journal of the English Place-Name Society'', 30 (1997–98), 158–59.] Zachrisson's efforts in
philology consist partly of historically oriented theses, in toponymy and pronunciation history, and of modern grammar and stylistics.
Zachrisson discussed Nordic influences in English place-names in his research, as well as Roman, Celtic and Saxon influence on English, and the
etymology of place-names. His further work added to our understanding of the pronunciation rules and history of pronunciation in
Modern English from 1400-1700, and especially during
Shakespeare's time. In 1930, Zachrisson made a noted effort in the issue of world languages by launching a simplified English spelling system: Anglic. He also founded the journal ''Studia Neophilologica'' in 1928. At the time of his death, he was working to create a dictionary of
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
place-names.
Selected bibliography
* ''A Contribution to the Study of Anglo-Norman Influence on English Place-Names'' (1909)
* ''Some Instances of Latin Influence on English Place-Nomenclature'' (1911)
* ''Pronunciation of English Vowels 1400-1700'' (1913)
* ''Two Instances of French Influence on English Place-Names'' (1914)
* ''Shakespeares uttal'' (1914)
* ''Northern English or London English as the Standard Pronunciation'' ("A Contribution to the History of Standard English"; 1914)
* '' Engelska stilarter med textprov'' (1919)
* ''Tysk, engelsk och internationell tanke'' (1920)
* ''Change of ts to ch, ds to dg and Other Instances of Sound-Substitution'' (1921)
* ''Engelsk nybörjarbok'' (1921)
* ''Sunt förnuft om skolförslaget'' (1923)
* ''Lärobok i engelska'' (1924)
* ''English River-Names'' (1926)
* ''English Pronunciation of Shakespeare's Time'' (1927)
* ''Romans, Kelts and Saxons'' (1927)
* ''
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
'' (1928)
* ''Modern engelsk väridsåskådning i litteraturens spegel'' (1928)
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Swedish philologists
1880 births
1937 deaths
20th-century philologists