Fred Bachrach

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Fred Bachrach
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SpouseWinifred MacManus
Catherine De Vries married in 1947
Harriet Jillings married in 1990
ChildrenA son with Winifred MacManus
Three children with Catherine De Vries

Albert Gustave Herbert "Fred" Bachrach (9 December 1914 – 18 December 2009) was a Dutch literary and art historian of French and German descent whose academic work featured in a number of prominent exhibitions and research works in Britain and the Netherlands and who founded the Sir Thomas Browne Institute for the study of Anglo-Dutch relations at

Second World War and spent three years as a Japanese prisoner of war
, suffering starvation, torture, and deprivation that haunted him for the rest of his life.

Early life

Bachrach was born in

Dutch Army.[1]

Military career

After the Japanese Invasion of the Dutch colonies he was captured in

Saigon during the First Indochina War before returning to the Netherlands to work for the government.[1]

Academia

While there he obtained a scholarship to

Tate Gallery. He also published numerous works on literary and art history, including the Dutch An Introduction to Shakespeare in Five Letters and founded the Sir Thomas Browne Institute for the study of Anglo-Dutch relations at Leiden.[1]

Bachrach became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970.[4]

Family

He was married three times: after his first divorce he married Catherine De Vries in 1947, but subsequently divorced with three children. He remarried for the final time in 1990 to Harriet Jillings and settled to retirement in

Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and was a keen painter and exhibited his own work. His wartime experiences remained with him throughout his life, but it was not until 1995 that he was able to speak openly about them after a meeting with Eric Lomax. He died in December 2009.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Professor Fred Bachrach". The Daily Telegraph. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  2. ^ van der Merwe, Pieter (5 February 2010). "Professor A.G.H. Bachrach: Turner expert and doyen of English literary studies who translated Shakespeare into Dutch". The Independent. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  3. ISBN 978-90-04-07456-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )    - Total pages: 293
  4. ^ "Alfred Gustave Herbert (Fred) Bachrach (1914 - 2009)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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