Schröder Professor of German
Encyclopedia
The Schröder Professorship of German is the senior professorship in the study of the German language
at the University of Cambridge
, and was founded in 1909 by a donation of £20,000 from John Henry Schröder, of J. H. Schröder & Co, a City of London
banking firm.
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, and was founded in 1909 by a donation of £20,000 from John Henry Schröder, of J. H. Schröder & Co, a City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
banking firm.
Schröder Professors
- Karl Hermann Breul (1910)
- Robert Allan Williams (1932)
- Eliza Marian Butler (1944)
- Walter Horace BrufordWalter Horace BrufordWalter Horace Bruford, FBA was a British scholar of German literature.Walter Horace Bruford was born in Manchester in 1894. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then he studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, and also at the University of Zurich, Switzerland...
(1951) - Leonard Wilson Forster (1961)
- Dennis Howard Green (1979)
- Roger Cole PaulinRoger PaulinRoger Paulin is an emeritus professor of German at the University of Cambridge. He was the Schröder Professor of German from 1989 to 2005.In 2002 he was awarded a Humboldt Prize.-External links:...
(1989) - Nicholas BoyleNicholas BoyleNicholas Boyle FBA is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has written widely on German literature, intellectual history and religion and is known particularly for his award-winning extensive biography of Goethe...
(2006)