Claus Bock

Claus Victor Bock (1926–2008) was a professor of German studies.

In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter's research on Hölderlin, and obtained a PhD at Basle under Walter Muschg. After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his Alma Mater, he became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London (1958), then reader (1964), and finally professor of German, Westfield College, London (1969). One Bock's noted PhD students was Jeremy Adler.

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Name	Bock, Claus
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Date of birth	1926
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Date of death	2008
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