Roy Wisbey

Roy Albert Wisbey (13 June 1929 – 21 October 2020) was a British medievalist, Professor of German at King's College, London, and one of the leading figures in British German studies.[1] He was also a pioneer in the field of digital humanities, founding the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre in Cambridge in 1971 and later promoting the establishment of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's. Over a period of 40 years he led the transformation of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) into a major scholarly publisher.[2] He was recognized by both the German and Austrian governments for his contribution to German Studies.

Roy A. Wisbey

FKC, MA, D.Phil
Born13 June 1929
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Died21 October 2020(2020-10-21) (aged 91)
Cambridge
NationalityBritish
OccupationUniversity Lecturer
TitleProfessor of German
Spouse(s)
Ernestine Birochs
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(m. 1951; died 2020)​
Awards
Academic background
EducationBishop's Stortford College
Alma mater
ThesisDas Alexanderbild Rudolfs von Ems (1955)
Doctoral advisorJulius Schwietering
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplineMedieval German Literature
Institutions
Notable students
Main interests

Selected Publications
  • Wisbey, Roy (1954–55). "Die Aristotelesrede bei Walter von Châtillon und Rudolf von Ems". Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur. 85 (4): 304–311. JSTOR 20654703.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  • ———— (April 1962). "Concordance Making by Electronic Computer: Some Experiences with the Wiener Genesis". The Modern Language Review. Modern Humanities Research Association. 57 (2): 161–172. doi:10.2307/3720960. JSTOR 3720960.
  • Wisbey, R (1963). "The Analysis of Middle High German Texts by Computer - Some Lexicographical Aspects". Transactions of the Philological Society. 62: 28–48. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1963.tb00999.x.
  • Wisbey, Roy (1966). Das Alexanderbild Rudolfs von Ems. Philologische Studien und Quellen, 31. Berlin: Erich Schmidt.
  • ———— (1967). Vollständige Verskonkordanz zur Wiener Genesis. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. ISBN 978-3503004737.
  • ———— (1968). Complete Concordance to the Vorau and Strassburg Alexander. Leeds: W.S. Maney. ISBN 978-0901286000.
  • Wisbey, R. A. (1971). "Publications from a computer-readable archive". In Wisbey, R. A. (ed.). The Computer in literary and linguistic research : papers from a Cambridge symposium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———— (1974). "Zur Bedeutung des Computers für die Edition altdeutscher Texte". In Schmidt, Ernst-Joachim (ed.). Kritische Bewahrung: Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie ; Festschrift für Werner Schröder zum 60. Geburtstag. Berlin: Erich Schmidt.
  • Wisbey, Roy (1978). "Die Erschließung eines maschinenlesbaren Text-Archivs des Frühmittelhochdeutschen". In Lenders, Winfried; Moser, Hugo (eds.). Maschinelle Verarbeitung Altdeutscher Texte. I. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. pp. 117–131. ISBN 978-3503007592.
  • Wisbey, R A (1980). "The Renovatio Amoris in Gottfried's Tristan". In Bock, C V (ed.). London German Studies I. London: Institute of Germanic Studies. ISBN 978-0-85457-095-9.
  • Wisbey, Roy (1982). "Fortune and love, reason and the senses: traditional motifs in Walther's song 'Ich freudehelfelôser man (L54, 37ff.)". Oxford German Studies. 13: 115–142. doi:10.1179/ogs.1982.13.1.115.
  • Wisbey, R A (1992). "Three Decades of Literary and Linguistic Computing'". In Wisbey, R A (ed.). London German Studies IV. London: Institute of Germanic Studies. ISBN 978-0-85457-158-1.
  • Wisbey, Roy (1990). "Living in the presence of the past: exemplary perspectives in Gottfried's Tristan". In Stevens, Adrian; Wisbey, Roy (eds.). Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend. Papers from an Anglo-North American Symposium. London: Institute of German Studies. pp. 257–276. ISBN 0-85457-146-9.
  • ———— (2003). "Tristan: On Being the Contemporary of Gottfried von Straßburg". Modern Language Review. 98 (4): xxxi–lx. doi:10.2307/3738048. JSTOR 3738048. (The Presidential Address of the Modern Humanities Research Association)

Festschrift

  • Honemann, Volker, ed. (1994). German Narrative Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Studies Presented to Roy Wisbey on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3484102194.

Notes
  1. Adler 2020.
  2. Wells 2020.

Sources
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