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==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 thefirst cousin ofto thea distinguished geographer [[Alfred Philippson]], and the husband of Margarete Josephine Hecker (1903-1989).

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 [[:de:Herbert Schöffler|Herbert Schöffler]] with a thesis on [[Anglo-Saxon paganism]]: ''Germanisches Heidentum bei den Angelsachsen''.

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*''Germanisches Heidentum bei den Angelsachsen'' (Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 1929. Reprinted: New York, Johnson Corp., 1966)

*''Die Genealogie der Götter in germanischer Religion, Mythologie und Theologie.'' Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 37, No. 3. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953. Pp. 94.

*"Phänomenologie, Vergleichendevergleichende Mythologie Undund Germanischegermanische Religionsgeschichte". ''PMLA'', vol. 77, no. 3 (June 1962), pp. 187-193. {{doi|10.2307/460477}}

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