Christoph Parry

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John Christopher Parry (* 17th May 1951 in Cambridge , England ) is a British author and specialist in German and since 1996 professor of German literature at the University of Vaasa .

The son of radio director John Gordon Parry and his wife Irmgard, née Blasberg, graduated from school in London in the summer of 1969 and then studied German, Russian and art history at the University of Edinburgh . After spending the academic year 1971/72 in Marburg, he completed his studies in Edinburgh in 1973 with an MA with honors. He then continued his studies in Marburg, where he worked as a high school teacher from 1973 to 1975. During his doctoral studies 1975–1977 with a DAAD scholarship at the University of Marburg, he married Sirkka Oksanen in June 1976. His academic teachers included a. in Edinburgh Furness, Salmon and Ward and in Marburg Freudenberg, Holz, Pickerodt and Kroneberg. He received his doctorate with the thesis " Mandelstamm the poet and the fictitious Mandelstam in the work of Paul Celans ".

In 1977 he moved to Finland, was initially a lecturer at the University of Turku , 1978–1994 lecturer and since 1992 also lecturer for German-language literature at the University of Jyväskylä and 1994–1996 substitute professor for German studies in Jyväskylä. He was visiting professor in 1995 at the German Summer School Taos , at the University of New Mexico and in 1996 in Graz .

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