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DELIUS, NIKOLAUS (1813–1888)

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DELIUS, NIKOLAUS (1813–1888) , See also:German philologist and Shakespearean See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Bremen on the 19th of See also:September 1813. He was educated at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin, and took the degree of See also:doctor in See also:philosophy in 1838. After travelling for some See also:time in See also:England, See also:France and See also:Germany, he returned to Bonn in 1846, where in 1855 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:Sanskrit, Provencal and See also:English literature, a See also:post he held until his See also:death, which took See also:place at Bonn on the 18th of See also:November 1888. His greatest See also:literary achievement was his scholarly edition of See also:Shakespeare (1854–1861). He also edited See also:Wace's St See also:Nicholas (1850), a See also:volume of Provencal songs (1853), and published a Shakspere-Lexikon (1852). His See also:original See also:works include: Uber das englische Theaterwesen zu Shaksperes Zeit (1853), Gedichte (1853), Der sardinische Dialekt See also:des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (1868), and Abhandlungenzu Shakspere (two See also:series, 1878 and 1888). As a critic of Shakespeare's See also:text he stands in the first See also:rank. See the See also:biographical See also:notice by J. Schipper in Englische Studien, vol. 14.

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