Jakob Minor

Jakob Minor (15 April 1855, in Vienna – 7 October 1912, in Vienna) was an Austrian literary historian and Germanist.
He studied under Karl Tomaschek and Richard Heinzel at the University of Vienna, and later furthered his education in Berlin as a student of Karl Müllenhoff and Wilhelm Scherer. From 1882 he taught classes at the scientific-literary academy in Milan, and in 1884 became an associate professor at the University of Prague. In 1885 he succeeded Erich Schmidt at Vienna, where in 1888 he was appointed professor of German language and literature. In 1905 he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.