Robert Priebsch


Robert Priebsch was a German professor and philologist.
From 1898 to 1931 he was a professor at University College London. With one of his students, W. E. Collinson, he published The German Language. His two-volume Deutsche Handschriften in England is a standard in the field.
His extensive collection of books and manuscripts was left to his daughter Hannah and his son-in-law August Closs; augmented significantly by Closs, the collection included 2300 volumes of 17th to 19th-century books which now comprise the Priebsch-Closs collection of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London.
His correspondence with Elias von Steinmeyer was edited and published by Closs.

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