Hugh Barr Nisbet
Hugh Barr Nisbet (* 1940 ) is an English German studies scholar. He was a professor at the University of Cambridge .
Nisbet studied in Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate (Ph.D.), and Cambridge (Litt. D.). He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Nisbet dealt with the Enlightenment and the time of Goethe, with Johann Gottfried Herder and is known for a Lessing biography, for which he received the Einhard Prize . He also translated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel into English.
He is on the board of the English Goethe Society and the Lessing Academy. In 1998 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2010 he received the Hamann Research Award.
Fonts
- Herder and the philosophy and history of science, Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1970
- Goethe and the scientific tradition, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London, 1972
- Lessing, CH Beck, 2008
- English edition: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: his life, works, and thought, Oxford University Press 2013
- Editor with CJ Rawson: The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Vol. 4, The eighteenth century, Cambridge University Press 1997
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| SURNAME | Nisbet, Hugh Barr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |