Alois Brandl (Innsbruck, June 21, 1855 – Berlin, February 5, 1940) was an Austrian born German philologist who specialized in early-modern and modern English. He was also a Shakespeare scholar and wrote a number of notable books.
Education
He completed his PhD at the University of Vienna.
Career
He held teaching positions at the universities of Prague, Göttingen, and Strasbourg.
In 1895, he became the professor of English Studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of books:
History of English Literature: From the fourteenth century
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School
Shakespeare and Germany
The Universal Anthology
See also
Manifesto of the Ninety-Three Philology
References
External links Biografie, Alois Brandl Brandl, Alois - Deutsche Biographie Brandl, Alois