Albert Edward Sloman

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Albert Edward Sloman (1974)

Sir Albert Edward Sloman (born February 14, 1921 in Launceston (Cornwall) ; † July 28, 2012 ) was a British Romance and Hispanic scholar , and founding rector of the University of Essex .

life and work

Albert Sloman studied Spanish at Wadham College , Oxford. He was a fighter pilot in World War II. He received his doctorate in 1948 with the thesis The sources of Calderón's El príncipe constante; with a critical edition of its immediate source, La fortuna adversa del infante don Fernando de Portugal a play attributed to Lope de Vega (Oxford 1950) and went to the University of California at Berkeley from 1946 to 1947 . From 1947 to 1953 he taught at Trinity College Dublin , from 1953 to 1962 he was Gilmour Professor of Spanish at the University of Liverpool (most recently Dean).

Sloman was from 1962 to 1987 first rector ("Vice Chancellor") of the newly founded University of Essex in Colchester . He built the university on the American model as a campus university. From 1969 to 1974 Sloman was President of the European Rectors' Conference .

Sloman was knighted in 1987 (" Knight Bachelor ") and from then on had the right to be addressed as "Sir".

Other works

  • The dramatic craftsmanship of Calderón. His use of earlier plays , Oxford 1958, 1969
  • (Ed.) Calderón, La vida es sueño , Manchester 1961
  • A University in the Making , London 1964 (German: A University in Development , Düsseldorf 1967)

literature

  • The comedia in the age of Calderón. Studies in honor of Albert Sloman , ed. by Ann L. Mackenzie, Liverpool 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Sloman, Albert Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sloman, Albert E .; Sloman, Sir Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance and Hispanicist and founding Rector of the University of Essex
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Launceston , Cornwall
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2012