Alexander Boecker

Alexander Boecker was a literary scholar whose best-known work is A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," published in 1913. In that study, submitted to New York University for the Ph.D., he argued that an Italian play was an important source for Shakespeare’s tragedy.

The book identifies him as an instructor at the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, New York, which suggests he worked both as a teacher and as a specialist in Shakespeare studies. His writing is academic but direct, with a clear interest in tracing how stories and dramatic ideas travel across languages and traditions.

Little biographical information about him was readily available in the sources I could confirm here, so this overview stays close to the facts attached to his published work. Even so, that single surviving study has given him a lasting place in Shakespeare scholarship, especially in discussions of the possible continental sources behind Julius Caesar.