Walter Horace Bruford

Walter Horace Bruford

Walter Horace Bruford MA, Hon LLD, Hon D.Litt, FBA, Hon D.Lett (July 14, 1894 – June 28, 1988) was a British scholar of German literature.

During World War I he worked in Room 40, a Royal Navy cryptographic Intelligence Division, and during World War II he worked at Bletchley Park. He was Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh from 1929-51, and subsequently the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1951-61.

Works

*Germany in the eighteenth century: the social background of the literary revival (1935)
*Chekhov and His Russia, a Sociological Study (1947)
*Theatre, drama, and audience in Goethe's Germany (1950)
*Literary Interpretation in Germany (1952)
*Anton Chekhov (1957)
*Fürstin Gallitzin und Goethe. Das Selbstvervollkommnungsideal und seine Grenzen (1957)
*Culture and society in classical Weimar, 1775-1806 (1962)
*First Steps In German Fifty Years Ago (1965)
*The German Tradition of Self-cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann (1975)
*Some German Memories 1911-1961 (1979)

References

*German studies. Presented to Walter Horace Bruford on his retirement by his pupils, colleagues, and friends (1962)


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