Terence James Reed

Terence James Reed (* 1937 in London ) is a British German scholar . He is currently Fellow emeritus at Queen's College , Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy .

Life

Reed studied German and Romance languages at the University of Oxford . From 1963 on, he held a professorship for German studies at St John's College . In 1989 he received the "Taylor Professorship of the German Language and Literature" at Oxford University, where he taught until his retirement in 2003. Since then Reed has been employed as Professor Emeritus for “German Language and Literature” at Queen's College. Central themes of his work are Thomas Mann and Johann Wolfgang Goethe .

Reed is also a member of the British Academy, a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is a founding member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense . In 1999, the Germanist held the Schiller Professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Reed received the Golden Goethe Medal from the Goethe Society Weimar in 1999 and the research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001 .

Works

• Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition , 1974
• The classic center: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832 , 1981
• Goethe , 1984
• Schiller , 1991
• Human practice literature. Essays on Goethe , 2001
• More light in Germany: a brief history of the Enlightenment , 2009

Reed contributed with numerous literary essays to the manuals of the Metzler publishing house . He continued to translate Heine and Goethe and edited an edition of Goethe's poems and Thomas Mann's early stories (in: Large commented Frankfurt edition).

Interviews

• Interview with Henk de Berg (2016)

Web links

• Literature by and about Terence James Reed in the catalog of the German National Library
• The author's biography and overview of his works at Bernstein-Verlag
• Brief overview of the author, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin
• Short biography of the author at Beck-Verlag
• Entry on Terence James Reed in the directory of Germanists