John George Robertson, FBA (18 January 1867, Glasgow – 29 May 1933, London) was a philologist and professor of German language and literature.
Robertson graduated with M.A. and B.Sc. from theUniversity of Glasgow and then Ph.D. (Promotion) fromLeipzig University. From 1896 to 1903 he was a lecturer in English at theUniversity of Strassburg. At the University of London, he became in 1903 Professor of German Language and Literature[1] and in 1924 Director of the Department of Scandinavian Studies.[2] He was the founding editor-in-chief of theModern Language Review. He wrote several books dealing with the literature of Germany and about a dozen articles for the1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.[1] At the University of Oxford he delivered the 1924Taylorian Lecture with titleThe Gods of Greece in German Poetry.
After his death his successor, and former pupil,Edna Purdie completed his work on Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie which was published in 1939.[3]
Richardson married Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, who became a novelist under her pen name "Henry Handel Richardson". They met in 1889 in Leipzig where he was a doctoral student inphilology and where she was a piano student. They married in Dublin on 30 December 1895.[4]
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