Frederick Klaeber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Klaeber

German academic

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1863

Place of Birth: Beetzendorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1954

Profession: university teacher, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Frederick J.
Klaeber (born Friedrich J.
Klaeber) (1 October 1863 – 4 October 1954) was a German philologist who was Professor of Old and Middle English at the University of Minnesota.
His edition of the poem Beowulf, published as Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, is considered a classic work of Beowulf scholarship; it has been in print continuously since 1922 and is now in its fourth edition.