Gertrude Schoepperle

Gertrude Schoepperle (July 15, 1882 – December 11, 1921) was an American university professor and a scholar of medieval Celtic, French, and German literature.

Her parents were Vinzens Schoepperle, of Rötenbach, Germany, and Elizabeth Klein, of Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

She studied at Wellesley College, Radcliffe College, before traveling abroad to continue her studies in Munich, Paris (with Ferdinand Lot, Joseph Bédier, and Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville), and Dublin.

She graduated with a Ph.D. in 1909, at Radcliffe College, with the thesis of "Studies on the Origin of the Tristan Romance".

From 1911 to 1919, she taught in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and established a strong Celtic studies program.