Jakob Markus Schipper (19 July 1842 Augustgroden (today part of Stadland) - 20 January 1915 Vienna) was a Germany- philologist and English language scholar ().
Biography
He was the son of a farmer. He studied
in Bonn,
Paris,
Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna. There he was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1887. He was rector of the University of Vienna 1901–02, and retired in 1913.
He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library.
Works
In addition to his work with Bosworth, he acted as editor of the
Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie (Vienna contributions to English philology; 1895–1900). He also published
Englische Metrik (1881–88), an important work, abridged as the one-volume
Grundriss der englischen Metrik (1895) (which was in turn published in English as
A History of English Versification (1910));
Zur Kritik der Shakespeare-Bacon-Frage (1889), and
Der Bacon-Bacillus (1896), and editions of the Alexis legends (1877–87), of
William Dunbar's poems (1892–94), and of the version of
Bede's ecclesiastical history purported to be by Alfred the Great (1897–99).
He promoted the study of English at Austrian middle schools.
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