Name Julius Hoffory | ||
Johann Peter Julius Hoffory (9 February 1855, Aarhus – 12 April 1897, Westend) was a Danish-German philologist, phonetician, and Germanic scholar.
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Biography
He studied general and Nordic linguistics at Copenhagen (1873–78), then continued his education in Berlin and Strasbourg (1879–83), receiving his doctorate in 1883 at Copenhagen with a thesis on Old Norse consonant studies. Afterwards he worked as a lecturer of Nordic philology and general phonetics at the University of Berlin, where in 1887 he became an associate professor.
Works
He edited and translated into German some of Ludvig Holberg's comedies under the title of "Dänische Schaubühne" (1885–87), and translated other Danish writings in "Nordische Bibliothek" (1889–91). He did much toward the introduction of Henrik Ibsen in Germany.