Jakob Markus Schipper (19 July 1842 Augustgroden (today part of

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) - 20 January 1915

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) was a

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and

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scholar (german: Professor für Anglistik).

Biography

He was the son of a farmer. He studied

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s in

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, and

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, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's ''Anglo-Saxon Dictionary'', and was professor of English philology at

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from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in

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. There he was elected to the

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in 1887. He was rector of the

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1901–02, and retired in 1913. He received the honorary degree

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(D.Litt.) from the

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in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the

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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

Dunbar Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ec ...

's poems (1892–94), and of the version of

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...

'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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schipper, Jakob 1842 births 1915 deaths German philologists Austrian philologists Historical linguists of English University of Bonn alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Academic staff of the University of Vienna People from Wesermarsch People from Oldenburg (state)