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Line 69: ==Biography== Ernst Alfred Philippson was born in [[Mönchengladbach]], Germany on 6 April 1900 to a prominent [[Jewish]] family. He was the son of the dentist Ernst Moritz Philippson (1871-1924) and Johanna Mühlinghaus (1878-1945). He was Since 1918, Philippson studied [[German language|German]], [[English language|English]] and history at the universities of [[University of Bonn|Bonn]], [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich|Munich]] and [[University of Cologne|Cologne]]. He received his [[Ph.D.]] in [[German philology]] at Cologne in 1924 under the supervision of [[Friedrich von der Leyen]] with a thesis on [[fairy tale]]s: ''Der Märchentypus von [[King Thrushbeard|König Drosselbart]]''. He completed his [[habilitation]] in 1928 under the supervision of
Philippson transferred to the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] in 1947, where he served as Associate Professor (1947-1951) and Professor (1951-1968) of [[Germanic philology|Germanic Philology]]. Philippson specialized in the study of [[German literature|German]] and [[English literature]], and [[Germanic paganism|Germanic religion]], and taught [[Old High German]] literature through to the period of 17th century literature. [[Elmer H. Antonsen]], one of his students, replaced him upon his retirement at the University of Illinois. Philippson was deeply involved with the ''[[Journal of English and Germanic Philology]]'', where he served as Editor (1953-1957) and Co-editor (1957-1971). He was a member of several learned societies, including [[American Association of Teachers of German]], the [[Modern Language Association]] and the [[Linguistic Society of America]]. Philippson retired in 1968, but continued to lecture at [[Columbia University]] after his retirement. In 1972 the University of Cologne honored Philippson with another doctorate upon the 50th anniversary of obtaining that degree which the Nazi regime had taken away from him. This was the first time in history that a doctorate was re-awarded among any of the German universities. He died in [[Urbana, Illinois]] on 9 August 1993. ==Selected works== *''Der Märchentypus von König Drosselbart'' (Greifswald 1923) * *"Neuere Forschungen Zum Westgermanenproblem und Zur Ausgliederung der Germanischen Stämme." In: ''Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures.'' 8:1 (1954), pp. 18-32. {{doi|10.1080/00397709.1954.10733807}} *''Germanisches Heidentum bei den Angelsachsen'' (Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 1929. *''Die Genealogie der Götter in germanischer Religion, Mythologie und Theologie.'' *"Phänomenologie, vergleichende Mythologie und germanische Religionsgeschichte". ''PMLA'', vol. 77, no. 3 (June 1962), pp. 187-193. {{doi|10.2307/460477}} ==Sources== |