Walter Horace Bruford

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Walter Horace Bruford (born July 14, 1894 in Manchester , † June 28, 1988 in Edinburgh ) was a British German studies scholar . He is known for his studies of classical Weimar in Goethe's time and its social history.

Life

Bruford went to school in Manchester (Manchester Grammar School) and studied at Cambridge University ( St John's College ) and the University of Zurich . During the First World War, he worked as a cryptographer in Room 40 at the British Admiralty. In 1920 he became a lecturer and in 1923 reader for German studies at the University of Aberdeen and in 1929 at the University of Edinburgh . From 1939 to 1945 he worked in the State Department and again as a cryptographer in Bletchley Park . 1951 to 1961 he was Schröder Professor of German Studies at Cambridge University.

In 1963 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy . Bruford was admitted to the Saxon Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member in 1965 . Since 1957 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

He last lived at Abbey St. Bathans in Berwickshire .

Fonts

  • Germany in the eighteenth century: the social background of the literary revival, Cambridge University Press 1935
  • The social foundations of the Goethe era, Weimar, H. Böhlaus Nachhaben 1936, reprint Ullstein Taschenbuch 1987
  • German culture from the time of Goethe, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Konstanz 1965
  • Chekhov and His Russia, a Sociological Study, London 1947
  • Anton Chekhov, Yale University Press 1957
  • Princess Gallitzin and Goethe. The ideal of self-perfection and its limits, Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Humanities 26, Cologne 1957
  • Culture and society in classical Weimar, 1775-1806, Cambridge University Press 1962
  • First Steps In German Fifty Years Ago, Cambridge, Modern Humanities Research Association 1965
  • The German Tradition of Self-cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann, Cambridge University Press 1975
  • Some German Memories 1911–1961, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 1980
  • Theater, drama, and audience in Goethe's Germany, London: Routledge and Paul 1950
  • Literary Interpretation in Germany, Cambridge University Press 1952
  • with Joseph John Findlay: Sound and Symbol. A Scheme Of Instruction, Introductory To School Courses In Modern Languages ​​And Shorthand, Kessinger Publ. 1917

literature

  • Roger Paulin: Bruford, Walter Horace (1894–1988) , in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2010, doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 52636
  • Leonard Forster: Walter Horace Bruford, 1894–1988 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 76 , 1991, pp. 383-394 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ saw-leipzig.de
  3. ^ Entry at the German Academy for Language and Poetry
personal data
SURNAME Bruford, Walter Horace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1988
Place of death Edinburgh