# Julius Zupitza
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{{Short description|German philologist (1844–1895)}}
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'''Julius Zupitza''' (4 January 1844 in [Kerpen](/source/Kierpie%C5%84), [Upper Silesia](/source/Upper_Silesia) – 6 July 1895 in Berlin) was a German philologist and one of the founders of [English philology](/source/English_philology) in Germany.[Edward Schröder (1900). "[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz86823.html#adbcontent Zupitza, Julius]". In ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB). '''45.''' Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.]
==Biography==
Zupitza was the son of Major Andreas Zupitza and his wife, Adelheid, née Albrecht. He received his Gymnasium education in [Oppeln](/source/Opole).
==Academic career==
Zupitza studied classical, Germanic, and Romance philology and [Sanskrit](/source/Sanskrit) at the [University of Breslau](/source/University_of_Breslau) and the [University of Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin), working with Friedrich Pfeiffer, Ottomar Behnsch, [Heinrich Rückert](/source/Heinrich_R%C3%BCckert), [Karl Müllenhoff](/source/Karl_M%C3%BCllenhoff), [August Boeckh](/source/August_Boeckh), and [Moritz Haupt](/source/Moritz_Haupt). He received his doctoral degree in 1865 in Berlin and his postdoctoral degree ([habilitation](/source/habilitation)) in 1869 in [Breslau](/source/Breslau). After a short appointment at the [University of Vienna](/source/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](/source/University_of_Berlin). He remained in this position until he died of a stroke in 1895.[Arthur S. Napier, "In Memoriam Julius Zupitza," ''The Academy'' 1211 (20 July 1895), p. 51; Gustav Tanger, "Julius Zupitza," ''Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft'' 32 (1896), 296-301.] In 1893, he received an honorary doctoral degree from the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge).
==Selected publications==
* ''Einführung in das Studium des mittelhochdeutschen. Zum Selbstunterricht für jeden gebildeten'' (Oppeln, 1868) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=kPxIAAAAcAAJ GB])
* ''Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick'' (Wien, 1873) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tmk7AAAAYAAJ 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). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006609705/Home Cynewulfs Elene: mit einem Glossar]. 3. Aufl. Berlin: Weidmann.]
* Ed., ''Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar'' (1880).
* Ed., ''Guy of Warwick'' (1883).[Zupitza, J. (188318871891). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011665170/Home The romance of Guy of Warwick]. [The first or 14th-century version.]. 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](/source/Deutsche_Shakespeare-Gesellschaft)
* [Johannes Hoops](/source/Johannes_Hoops)
* [Hugo Gering](/source/Hugo_Gering)
==References==
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==Further reading==
*Arnold Schröer: Aus der Frühzeit der englischen Philologie. I. Persönliche Erinnerungen und Eindrücke, in: ''Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift'' 15 (1925), S. 32–51.
*[Richard Utz](/source/Richard_Utz): ''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."
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