Peter Ganz

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Peter Ganz, Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature, at his last public appearance at the Anglo-German Colloquium 2005 in Somerville College, Oxford

Peter Felix Ganz (born November 3, 1920 in Mainz ; † August 17, 2006 in Oxford ) was a German scholar and professor at Oxford University .

Life

Peter Ganz was the son of Dr. Hermann Friedrich Ignaz Ganz and Dr. Charlotte (Lotte), b. Fromberg. He attended the Realgymnasium in Mainz. In November 1938, as a Jew, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for six weeks, but was then able to emigrate to England. After internment on the Isle of Man , he joined the Pioneer Corps and then worked for the CSDIC ( Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center ), u. a. with Fritz Lustig. At the end of the war he was a member of Operation Epsilon and wired the nuclear physicists interned at the Farm Hall estate . In 1949 he married Rosemary Allen († 1986). The marriage had two sons, Adam Ganz and David Ganz (until 2010 Professor of Paleography at King's College London ), and two daughters: Deborah Ganz and Rachel Ganz. In 1987 he married Nicolette Mout (professor emeritus for modern history and endowed chair of Central European Studies).

Orders and awards

In 1973 he received the Federal Cross of Merit in recognition of how much he had promoted the scientific exchange between English and German Germanists. In 1993 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Scientific activity

1948–49: Assistant Lecturer at Royal Holloway College , London; 1949–60: Lecturer in German Philology and Medieval Literature at Westfield College , London; 1960–72: University Reader in German, Oxford; 1963–72: Fellow at Hertford College , Oxford; 1972–85: Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature and Fellow at St Edmund Hall , Oxford (successor: Nigel F. Palmer (until 2013)); 1985–88: Resident Fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, and honorary professor at the University of Göttingen . He founded the Anglo-German Colloquium, a biennial meeting of British and German Germanist medievalists. He was co-founder (1966) of Oxford German Studies , which he co-edited from 1978 to 1990, and co-editor (1976–90) of the PBB .

Selected publications

  • The Influence of English on German Vocabulary (1957)
  • Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan (1978)
  • Editor: Dukus Horant
  • Editor: Jakob Burckhardt's lectures on the study of history (1982, again as vol. 10 of the Critical Complete Edition , 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newspaper report about the Ganz family
  2. ↑ English-language report on the work
  3. ^ Guardian contribution to the closure of the palaeography professorship
  4. ^ Obituary in the Independent
  5. ^ Website of Nicolette Mout at the University of Leiden
  6. ^ Obituary in the Wolfenbüttel library news
personal data
SURNAME Quite, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganz, Peter Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 2006
Place of death Oxford