George Philip Krapp, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American English scholar
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About George Philip Krapp
- George Philip Krapp (born Cincinnati 1872, died 1934) was a scholar of English. In 1897 Krapp joined the faculty of Columbia University, becoming professor of English at Cincinnati (1908–10) before gaining the same title at Columbia (1910–34).
- His most famous achievement is conceiving and in large part undertaking the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition (begun in 1931, and concluded by Krapp's collaborator Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie in 1953).
- Krapp is also noted for his books Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use (1909) and The English Language in America (1925).
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