Victor E. Neuburg
Victor Edward Neuburg (8 March 1924 – January 1996) was a scholar.
Neuburg was born in
He was educated at the University of Leicester where he received the degree of Master of Education in 1967.[1]
He was Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer)[1] in the School of Librarianship North-Western Polytechnic/Polytechnic of North London. He was general editor of the Woburn Press series of reprints The Social History of Education.[2]
In the year 1984/5 he was Samuel Foster Haven Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. His Fellowship publication was 'Chapbooks in America', in Cathy N. Davidson, ed., Reading in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)[1]
Neuburg married Hannah 'Anne' Hilsum (1919-2000) in 1944. They had a daughter, Caroline Neuburg, in 1948, who in turn married Brian Robertson in 1973, with whom she had daughters Katherine and Alison.[3]
Publications
- John Buchan, A history of the First World War, abridged and introduced by Victor Neuberg (Moffat: Lochar, 1991)
- Victor Neuburg, Gone for a soldier: a history of life in the British ranks since 1660 (London: Cassell, 1989)
- Victor E. Neuburg, 'Chapbooks in America', in Cathy N. Davidson, ed., Reading in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)
- Victor Neuburg, A guide to the Western Front: a companion for travellers (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988)
- Charles Dickens, A December vision: his social journalism, edited by Neil Philip and Victor Neuburg (London: Collins, 1986)
- Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, selections made and introduced by Victor Neuburg (Penguin classics, 3241; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985)
- Victor E. Neuburg, The Popular Press companion to popular literature (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983
- Vickybird: a memoir of Victor B. Neuburg, by his son Victor E. Neuburg (London: Polytechnic of North London, 1983)
- Victor E. Neuburg, The Batsford companion to popular literature (London: Batsford Academic and Educational, 1982)
- Victor E. Neuburg, History hunter, illustrated by Trevor Ridley (London: Beaver Books, 1979)
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin: selections, compiled and introduced by Victor E. Neuburg (Great bibliographers series, no. 3; Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Popular literature: a history and guide, from the beginning of printing to the year 1897 (London: Woburn, 1977; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Chapbooks: a guide to reference material on English, Scottish and American chapbook literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2nd edn., London: Woburn Press, 1972)
- Victor E. Neuburg, The past we see today (London: Oxford University Press, 1972)
- Literacy and society, edited with a new introduction by Victor E. Neuburg (The social history of education, second series, no. 5; London: Woburn Press, 1971)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Popular education in eighteenth century England (London: Woburn Press, 1971)
- Edwin Pearson, Banbury chap books and nursery toy book literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new foreword by Victor Neuburg (Welwyn Garden City: Seven Dials Press, 1970)
- Victor E. Neuburg, 'Popular Education and Literacy', Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter, no. 4 (Spring 1970), pp. 51-5
- Victor E. Neuburg, 'Literacy in eighteenth century England: a caveat', Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter, no. 2 (Spring 1969), pp. 44-6
- Victor E. Neuburg, The penny histories: a study of chapbooks for young readers over two centuries, illustrated with facsimiles of seven chapbooks (The Juvenile Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1968)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Points & pitfalls: a first notebook in French composition (n.p.: University Tutorial Press, 1965)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Points and pitfalls: a first notebook in German composition (n.p.: University Tutorial Press, 1965)
- Victor E. Neuburg, Chapbooks: a bibliography of references to English and American chapbook literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (London: Vine Press, 1964)
- Victor E. Neuburg, A select handlist of references to chapbook literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Edinburgh: privately printed by J. A. Birkbeck, 1952)
References
- ^ a b c Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1972 – present, American Antiquarian Society. Updated 1997. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ Victor E. Neuburg, 'Popular Education and Literacy', Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter, no. 4 (Spring 1970), pp. 51-5; Victor E. Neuburg, 'Literacy in eighteenth century England: a caveat', Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter, no. 2 (Spring 1969), pp. 44-6
- ^ Victor E. Neuburg, The Popular Press companion to popular literature (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983, p. 6.