Robert Priebsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Priebsch

German philologist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1866

Place of Birth: Tanvald, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-May-1935

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Robert Priebsch (1866-1935) was a German professor and philologist. From 1898 to 1931 he was a professor at University College London.
With one of his students, W.
E.
Collinson, he published The German Language (1934).
His two-volume Deutsche Handschriften in England (Erlangen 1896-1901) is a standard in the field.His extensive collection of books and manuscripts was left to his daughter Hannah and his son-in-law August Closs; augmented significantly by Closs, the collection included 2300 volumes of 17th to 19th-century books which now comprise the Priebsch-Closs collection of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London.His correspondence with Elias von Steinmeyer was edited and published by Closs.