Jim Reed (academic)

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Terence James Reed,

Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford
from 1989 to 2004.

Born in 1937, Reed completed his undergraduate studies at

Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in 1989 (whereupon he was elected to a fellowship at The Queen's College, Oxford). He retired in 2004.[2]

In 1987, Reed was elected a

Goethe Society in 1999, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Freiburg in 2010.[2] In 2004, volume 33 of the Oxford German Studies, edited by Tom Kuhn, was offered as a tribute to Reed and is a Festschrift marking his retirement.[3]

Publications

  • Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition (Clarendon Press, 1974; 2nd ed., 1996).
  • The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar (Croom Helm, 1979).
  • Goethe (Oxford University Press, 1984).
  • Schiller (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • In German: Mehr Licht in Deutschland - Eine kleine Geschichte der Aufklärung (C.H. Beck Verlag, 2009)

Additionally, Reed's Bithell Memorial Lecture for 1994 was "Genesis: Some Episodes in Literary Creation".

References

  1. ^ "Reed, Prof. Terence James, (Jim)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  2. ^
    The British Academy
    . Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  3. ^ Tom Kuhn, "Preface", Oxford German Studies, vol. 33 (2004), pp. 1–2.