Julius Zupitza (4 January 1844 in
Kerpen
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Upper Silesia – 6 July 1895 in Berlin) was a German philologist and one of the founders of
English philology in Germany.
Biography
Zupitza was the son of Major Andreas Zupitza and his wife, Adelheid, née Albrecht. He received his Gymnasium education in
Oppeln.
Academic career
Zupitza studied classical, Germanic, and Romance philology and
Sanskrit at the
University of Breslau and the
University of Berlin, working with Friedrich Pfeiffer, Ottomar Behnsch,
Heinrich Rückert
Heinrich Rückert (14 February 1823, in Coburg – 11 September 1875, in Breslau) was a German historian and Germanist. He was the son of orientalist and poet Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866).
From 1840 to 1844 he studied classical and Germa ...
,
Karl Müllenhoff,
August Boeckh
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, and
Moritz Haupt. He received his doctoral degree in 1865 in Berlin and his postdoctoral degree (
habilitation
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) in 1869 in
Breslau. After a short appointment at the
University of Vienna in the area of Northern Germanic languages, he was appointed first professor and chair of English philology at the prestigious
University of Berlin. He remained in this position until he died of a stroke in 1895. In 1893, he received an honorary doctoral degree from the
University of Cambridge.
Selected publications
* ''Einführung in das Studium des mittelhochdeutschen. Zum Selbstunterricht für jeden gebildeten'' (Oppeln, 1868)
GB
* ''Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick'' (Wien, 1873)
GB
* Ed., ''The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century Version'' (1875–1876)
* Ed., ''General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales'' (1882).
* Ed., ''Beowulf. Autotypes of the unique Cotton MS. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum'' (London: Trübner, 1882).
* Ed., ''Cynewulfs Elene mit einem Glossar'' (1877).
[Cynewulf., Zupitza, J. (1888)]
Cynewulfs Elene: mit einem Glossar
3. Aufl. Berlin: Weidmann.
* Ed., ''Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar'' (1880).
* Ed., ''Guy of Warwick'' (1883).
[Zupitza, J. (188318871891)]
The romance of Guy of Warwick
he first or 14th-century version.
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...
London: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited.
* Ed., ''The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'' (1890).
See also
*
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
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Johannes Hoops
*
Hugo Gering
References
Further reading
*Arnold Schröer: Aus der Frühzeit der englischen Philologie. I. Persönliche Erinnerungen und Eindrücke, in: ''Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift'' 15 (1925), S. 32–51.
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Richard Utz
Richard Utz (born 1961) is a German-born medievalist who has spent much of his career in North America. He specializes in medievalism, medieval studies, and served as President of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism (2009–2020) ...
: ''Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology. A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948''. Brepols, Turnhout 2002, especially pp. 73–126: "The Founding Fathers: Julius Zupitza and Bernhard ten Brink."
1844 births
1895 deaths
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
Chaucer scholars
Germanic studies scholars
People from Prudnik County
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
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