Robert Priebsch

Robert Priebsch (11 June 1866 - 25 May 1935) was a Bohemian-German philologist, paleographer, and expert on medieval literature in both Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic languages.

Robert Priebsch was born in Tannwald on 11 June 1866 in the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire (modern Tanvald in the Czech Republic).

He was afflicted by foot problems from an early age, an ailment that never left him, with the sole comfort that his difficulty in moving about lead to a lifetime love of reading books.

[1] Priebsch moved to the United Kingdom in 1895 or 1896 in order to inspect and catalog medieval manuscripts in both public and private collections.

His work impressed others as to his skill in German paleography, and he soon acquired a lecturer position at the University of Liverpool with the support of Kuno Meyer.