Michael Beddow

Michael Beddow is a specialist in German literature, who is also a renowned expert in the application of XML technologies to web representations of literary corpora, and who is deeply involved with the work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).^[1]

He studied at the St John's College, Cambridge, earning a Double First in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos in 1969. He studied at University of Tübingen, as Foundation Scholar of the King Edward VII British-German Foundation. He held lecturing posts at Cambridge and London, before being appointed to the Chair of German at the University of Leeds, from which he retired in 1998.^[2] He has been undertaken the primary technical responsibilities for the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism,^[3] and the Internet version of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary.

Works

• Ritchie Robertson, ed (2002). "The Magic Mountain". The Cambridge companion to Thomas Mann. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521653701. http://books.google.com/books?id=s2VRTk60m9YC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Michael+Beddow&source=bl&ots=WFLGhJaQTY&sig=3QuOghNGmitqMCq6KmBTdTiozbY&hl=en&ei=2ESiS--7I4S0tgfM2cySCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBYQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=Michael%20Beddow&f=false. 
• Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus. Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 9780521375924. http://books.google.com/books?id=gqD4RpgDkiMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Beddow&hl=en&ei=bEWiS-SgMoG0tgeQxd31CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Goethe, Faust I, Grant & Cutler, 1986, ISBN 9780729302616
• The fiction of humanity: studies in the Bildungsroman from Wieland to Thomas Mann, Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780521245333

References

1. ^ http://www.buddhism-dict.net/credits/beddow.html
2. ^ http://www.leeds.ac.uk/reporter/428/bedd.htm
3. ^ http://www.buddhism-dict.net/credits/beddow.html

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