George Philip Krapp (1872–1934) was a scholar of the English language who was born in Cincinnati.
He graduated from Wittenberg College in 1894 and received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1899.
His best known achievement is conceiving and in large part undertaking the six volume Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition (begun in 1931, and concluded by Krapp's collaborator Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie in 1953).
Krapp is also noted for his books Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use (1909) in which he argued "that 'good English' was not determined by the conformity to grammatical laws, but by the common use of language",[2] and The English Language in America (1925)[3] described by Henry Blake Fuller as "detailing the adventures of an old language in a new country" and a book that "contravenes many of our favorite notions about ourselves and our speech".
[4] He wrote six children's books about subjects such as "the Civil War, the Great Lakes, the frontier, and country life".