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TEN BRINK, BERNHARD EGIDIUS KONRAD (1841-1892) , See also:

German philologist, of Dutch origin, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam on the 12th of See also:January 1841, but was sent to school at See also:Dusseldorf, and afterwards studied at See also:Munster, and later under See also:Diez and See also:Delius at See also:Bonn. In 1866 he began to lecture at the Munster See also:Academy on the See also:philology of the See also:English and See also:Romance See also:languages. In 1870 he became See also:professor of See also:modern languages at See also:Marburg, and after the reconstitution of See also:Strassburg University was appointed professor of English there in 1873. In 1874 he began to edit, in See also:conjunction with W. See also:Scherer, E. See also:Martin and E. See also:Schmidt, Quellen and Forschungen zur Sprache and Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Volker. He devoted himself for many years to the study of See also:Chaucer. In 1897 he published Chaucer: Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwickelung and zur Chronologie seiner Schriften; in 1884, Chaucers Sprache and Verskunst. He also published See also:critical See also:editions of the See also:Prologue and the Compleynte to See also:Pile. Ten Brink's See also:work in this direction stimulated a revival of Chaucer study in the See also:United See also:Kingdom as well as in See also:Germany, and to him was indirectly due the See also:foundation of the English Chaucer Society. His See also:Beowulf-Untersuchungen (1888) proved a hardly less valuable contribution to the studyof See also:Early English literature.

His best known work is his Geschichte dcr englischen Literatur (1889-93), (English by H. See also:

Kennedy in See also:Bohn's See also:Standard Library), which was unfortunately never completed, and See also:broke off just before the Elizabethan See also:period. It was his intense admiration of See also:Shakespeare that first attracted him to the study of English, and five lectures on Shakespeare delivered at See also:Frankfort were published after his See also:death (1893). Ten Brink died at Strassburg on the 29th of January 1892. He was a See also:great teacher as well as an accurate and brilliant writer, and from many countries students flocked to his lecture-See also:room.

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