DELIUS, NIKOLAUS (1813-1888), German philologist and Shakespearean scholar, was born at Bremen Sept. 19, 1813.
He was educated at Bonn and Berlin, and in i855 was appointed professor of Sanskrit, Provençal and English literature at Bonn, a post he held until his death. His greatest literary achievement was his scholarly edition of Shakespeare (1854-61). He also edited Wace's St. Nicholas (185o), a volume of Provençal songs (1853), and published a Shakespere-Lexikon (1852). As a critic of Shakespeare's text he stands in the first rank.