Background
HOOPS, Professor Johannes was born on July 20, 1865 in Rablinghausen, near Bremen. Son of Johann Hoops and Gesine Blanke.
HOOPS, Professor Johannes was born on July 20, 1865 in Rablinghausen, near Bremen. Son of Johann Hoops and Gesine Blanke.
Gymnasium, Bremen, 1876-1885. Studied first Natural Science, then Modern Languages and History, at the Universities of Jena, 1885-1886, and Freiburg i.-B. 1886-1889. Doctor of Philosophy at Freiburg, 1889.
Military service, 1885-S6. Reserve officer since 1893. Lived in England, 1889-1890.
Teacher at the Realschule, Freiburg i.-B. 1890-1891. At the Gymnasium, Heidelberg, 1891-1893. Lector and Privatdocent for English at the University of Tubingen, 1893-1896.
Since 1894 Professor.
Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. PuhlicatioTis: Die altenglischen Pfianzennamen, 1889 (Dissertation). Keats' Jugend u. Jugend, gedichte, 1895.
Waldbaume u. Kulturpflanzen im germanischen Altertum, 1905. Reallexikon der germanischn Alter tmnskunde, 1910. Edited Keats’ Hyperion, 1899.
Translated Bellamy’s Looking Backward, 1891. Bret Harte’s Tales of the Argonauts, 1892-1896. William Stafford’s Examination of Certayne Ordinary Complaints of Divers of our Countrymen (Anno Domini 1581), 1895.
Sidney Low’s Governance of England, 1908. Editor of the Magazine Englische Studien since 1899. Founder and editor of the Englische Texfbibliothek since 1898, and Anglistische Forschungen since 1900.
Professor Ordinarius of English Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg since 1896. Seheimer Hofrat.
Spouse 1895, Ida Schultz.