The Schröder Professorship of German is the senior

professorship Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in the study of the

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at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, and was founded in 1909 by a donation of £20,000 from Sir John Henry Freiherr von Schröder, Bt. of ''J. H. Schröder & Co'', a

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banking firm.

Schröder Professors

* Karl Hermann Breul (1910) * Robert Allan Williams (1932) *

Eliza Marian Butler Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959), who published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945. Her most influential book ...

(1944) * Walter Horace Bruford (1951) *

Leonard Wilson Forster Leonard Wilson Forster (30 March 1913 – 18 April 1997) was Professor of German at University College London, and Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. Life and work Born in London, Forster was godchild (and son) of ...

(1961) *

Dennis Howard Green Dennis Howard Green (26 June 1922 – 5 December 2008) was an English philologist who was Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. He specialized in Germanic philology, particularly the study of Medieval German literat ...

(1979) * Roger Cole Paulin (1989) * Nicholas Boyle (2006) * Sarah Colvin (2014)

References

*http://www.vifabbi.de/fabian?Libraries_In_The_Britisch_Isles
Newspaper report: "Too much German"
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