Johannes Hoops (born 20 July 1865 - 14 April 1949) was a German philologist who was Professor of English philology at the University of Heidelberg . He is best known as the publisher of the first edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (1911-1919).
4-469: Germanische Altertumskunde Online , formerly called Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , is a German encyclopedia of the study of Germanic history and cultures, as well as the cultures that were in close contact with them. The first edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde appeared in four volumes between 1911 and 1919, edited by Johannes Hoops . The second edition, under
8-532: Is published online by De Gruyter, accessible via subscription. Johannes Hoops Johannes Hoops was born in Bremen , Kingdom of Hanover on 20 July 1865. He initially studied mathematics and the natural sciences at the universities of Jena and Freiburg , and philology and business. He gained his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1889 with a dissertation on Old English plant names. Hoops taught at
12-669: The University of Tübingen from 1893 to 1896. Since 1896, Hoops was Associate Professor, and from 1902 Professor, of English philology at the University of Heidelberg . Throughout his career, Hoops was the editor of several journals on English philology. Hoops became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1932, and a Corresponding Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1939. Following World War II , Hoops briefly served as Rector at
16-616: The auspices of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities , was edited by Heinrich Beck (from vol 1, 1968/72), Heiko Steuer (from vol. 8, 1991/94), Rosemarie Müller (from 1992), and Dieter Geuenich (from vol. 13, 1999), and was published by Walter de Gruyter in 35 volumes between 1968 and 2008. In 2010, the most recent version was published, now renamed Germanische Altertumskunde Online . Edited by Heinrich Beck, Heiko Steuer, Dieter Geuenich, Wilhelm Heizmann , Sebastian Brather , Steffen Patzold and Sigmund Oehrl , it
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