Ernst Sieper

• His most important contribution to science was his scholarly edition of John Lydgate's "Reason and Sensuality" (Early Engl. Text. Soc., Extra Ser. 84, 1901).
• He also edited "Les echecs amoureux," an old French allegory in the style of the "Roman de la Rose," and the source of Lydgate's poem (Weimar, 1898).

Soon, however, Professor Sieper's interest was directed towards the modern period of English literature, and he devoted himself to the study of the aesthetic movement in the Romantic and the Victorian age. The fruits of his researches in this never forsook the cause he had espoused. In numerous newspaper articles he pleaded for fair play and reacted against the vagaries of chauvinism. It was his sacred conviction that an ultimate adjustment of the conflicting political interests of England and Germany was possible, and that it ought to be prepared by intellectual and social cooperation. And no doubt, had Professor Sieper lived to see the conclusion of peace, his influence would have contributed in a large measure to Intellectual and social cooperation. And no doubt had Professor Sieper lived to see the conclusion of peace, his influence would have contributed to a large measure to quiet the chauvinists on both sides of the Channel, at least in the république des letrees.

• On January 6, 1916 he died at Munich, Germany, as professor of English literature and philology at the University of Munich.[2]
• Die Geschichte von Soliman und Perseda in der neueren Litteratur 90
• Les Echecs Amoureux 98;

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