Israel Gollancz

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Israel Gollancz
Portrait of Sir Israel Gollancz from photographers Elliott & Fry c. 1890s

Sir Israel Gollancz,

King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930.[3]

Life and career

Gollancz was born 13 July 1863,

A Merchant of Venice. Later in his life, many of his friends knew him by the nickname "Goblin".[6]

Gollancz was educated at the

Cambridge University, and in 1896 was appointed the first lecturer of English there.[7] In 1910, he married Alide Goldschmidt in London.[8]

He was a founder member and the first Secretary (1902–1930) of the British Academy and of the committee for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which eventually became the Royal National Theatre in London, and he was the Director of the Early English Text Society.[9] He edited the "Temple" Shakespeare, a uniform edition of the complete works in pocket-size volumes which was the most popular Shakespeare edition of its day. In 1916, as Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, he also edited A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, an anthology of responses to Shakespeare from scholars, thinkers and other prominent figures from around the world.[10] He also produced a translation in modern English of the important medieval Christian allegorical poem Pearl, which he theorized may have been the work of Ralph Strode. He contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography. Gollancz was knighted in 1919.[11] In 1922 he delivered the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.[12]

Death and legacy

Gollancz died on 23 June 1930 in London, and was buried on 26 June at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.[13] In the year of his death, the British Academy held a memorial lecture in his name, at which they unveiled a bust of Sir Israel.[14] Despite this prestige, Gollancz seems to have been regarded by the succeeding generation of scholars in his field as part of an "old guard" prone to fancy and unscholarly conjecture.[15]

He had been working on an edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which was unfinished when he died. His long-time collaborator, Mabel Day, completed the work and it was published in 1940. Mum and the Sothsegger was also completed by Day and Robert Steele and published in 1936.[16]

The British Academy awards the

Sir Israel Gollancz prize for Early English Studies.[17]

Obituary

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Israel Gollancz
  • "Sir Israel Gollancz Early and Middle English (transcript)". The Times. London. 24 June 1930. p. 16; col D.

References

  1. ^ Births Sep 1863 GOLLANEZ Israel London City 1c 77
  2. ^ Deaths Jun 1930 Gollancy Israel 66 Willesden 3a 310
  3. ^ Joseph Jacobs and Victor Rousseau Emanuel. "Gollancz, Israel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
  4. ^ "Some Centenaries of 1963". The Times. London. 2 January 1963. p. 12; col E.
  5. ^ England 1871 census. Class: RG10; Piece: 436; Folio: 10; Page: 16; GSU roll: 823356.
  6. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107337466.010
    .
  7. ^
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
    , 2004; online edition, May 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2023. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Marriages Sep 1910 Gollancz Israel Paddington 1a 231
  9. ^ "Early English Text Society". The Times. London. 22 July 1930. p. 17; col D.
  10. ^ Gollancz, Israel, ed. (1916). A book of homage to Shakespeare. Oxford: Humphrey Milford.
  11. ^ "Honours List". The Times. London. 29 April 1919. p. 12; col D.. Professor Israel Gollancz, Secretary of the British Academy since its foundation.
  12. ^ "Shakespeare Lectures". The British Academy.
  13. ^ "Deaths". The Times. London. 27 June 1930. p. 1; col A and 17; col D.
  14. ^ "The Art of Chaucer: Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture". The Times. London. 4 December 1930. p. 9; col D.
  15. doi:10.1353/tks.2017.0004
    .
  16. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48697. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  17. ^ "British Academy's New Fellows". The Times. London. 11 July 1963. p. 14; col F.

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