Jakob Markus Schipper (19 July 1842 Augustgroden (today part of Stadland) - 20 January 1915 Vienna) was a German-Austrian philologist and English scholar (German: Professor für Anglistik).
He studied modern languages in Bonn, Paris, Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna.
from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library.
[1] In addition to his work with Bosworth, he acted as editor of the Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie (Vienna contributions to English philology; 1895–1900).
He also published Englische Metrik (1881–88), an important work, abridged as the one-volume Grundriss der englischen Metrik (1895) (which was in turn published in English as A History of English Versification (1910)); Zur Kritik der Shakespeare-Bacon-Frage (1889), and Der Bacon-Bacillus (1896), and editions of the Alexis legends (1877–87), of Dunbar's poems (1892–94), and of the version of Bede's ecclesiastical history purported to be by Alfred the Great (1897–99).