| AdminHistory | Born in London, son of Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz, cantor of the Hambro Synagogue, London, and his wife, Johanna Koppell, 1863; educated at the City of London School, University College, London, and Christ's College, Cambridge (scholar 1883-1887, BA in medieval and modern languages, 1887); Quain English student and lecturer at University College London, 1892-1895; first lecturer in English at Cambridge University, 1896-1906; one of the founders of the British Academy and its Secretary, 1902-1930; professor of English at King's College London, 1903-1930; LittD, 1906; married the artist Alide Goldschmidt, daughter of Abraham Baruch Goldschmidt, 1910; Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, 1916; knighted 1919; corresponding member of the Real Academia Espaola, 1919; President of the Philological Society, 1919-1922; helped establish the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1920; corresponding member of the Medieval Academy of America, 1927; Leofric lecturer in Old English at University College, Exeter; Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society; Chairman of the Shakespeare Association; Honorary Freeman of the Stationers' Company; member of the council of Jews' College; second President of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies; President of the Maccabaeans; Honorary President of the Inter-University Jewish Federation; died London, 1930. Publications include: 'Pearl' (1891), 'Cynewulf's Christ' (1892), 'Lamb's Specimens of Elizabethan Dramatists' (1893), 'Temple Shakespeare' (1894-1896), 'Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry' (1895), 'The Parliament of the Three Ages' (1897), 'Hamlet in Iceland' (1898), 'Boccaccio's Olympia' (1913), 'The Book of Homage to Shakespeare' (1916), 'The Sources of Hamlet' (1926); 'The Caedmon Manuscript of Anglo-Saxon Biblical Poetry' (1927 ); general editor of The Temple Classics, The King's Library, The Medival Library. |