Nicholas Boyle
Nicholas Boyle (born June 18, 1946 in London ) is a British German scholar and author of a biography of Goethe .
Boyle grew up in Malvern and Worcester . He studied Modern Languages and especially German at the University of Cambridge ( Magdalene College ), where he was a Fellow since 1968, Reader from 1993 and Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History from 2000. From 2006 until his retirement he was Schröder Professor of German in Cambridge. From 1996 to 2001 he headed the Faculty of German Studies in Cambridge.
He is currently (2020) working on the third and probably last volume of his Goethe biography; it has received international acclaim and is considered a standard work. The first two volumes appeared in 1991 and 2000.
In 2000 he received the Goethe Medal from the Goethe Institute . In 2001 he was elected to the British Academy . In 2009 he received the Friedrich Gundolf Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . He was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and a visiting scholar in Göttingen and is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 2017 he received the Golden Goethe Medal .
He has been married to lawyer Rosemary Devlin since 1983 and has four children.
Fonts
- Goethe. Der Dichter in seine Zeit , Volume 1–2, CH Beck, Munich, 1995–1999, paperback edition Insel Verlag 2004 (English original edition: Goethe , Volume 1: The Poetry of Desire (1749–1790) , Oxford University Press 1991, Volume 2 : Revolution and Renunciation (1790–1803) , Oxford University Press 2000)
- with John Guthrie (Ed.): Goethe and the English Speaking World. Boydell and Brewer 2002
- 2014 - How to Survive the Next World Crisis , Continuum Books, 2010
- A small German literary history , CH Beck 2009, (English original: German Literature: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature , University of Notre Dame Press, 2004 (Erasmus Lecture at Notre Dame University 2002/2003)
- Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney , Continuum 2000
- Faust Part One , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 (introduction and commentary on Faust)
- Editor with Martin Swales, Joseph Peter Stern Realism in European literature: essays in honor of JP Stern , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986
Web links
- Literature by and about Nicholas Boyle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emeritus in Cambridge
- “Wonderful and inscrutable” - the biographer Nicholas Boyle on Goethe's opportunities today - Interview in Spiegel , August 16, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of Volume 1 by Kakutani, New York Times . Review of Volume 2 of the Goethe biography by Jeremy Adler in the New York Times . Review of Volume 2 by George Steiner in the Guardian , review of Volume 2 by Reed in the Guardian . Review of volume 2 in Die Zeit 1999
- ↑ Biographical information partly based on Lorraine Byrne (editor) Goethe. Musical poet and musical catalyst , Carysfort Press 2004. Therein from Boyle History: Gods, Godesses and Wilhelm Meisters apprenticeship years
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyle, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British German studies specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |