Walter Horace Bruford

Walter Horace Bruford (* July 14, 1894 in Manchester, † 28 June 1988) was a British specialist in German. He is known for studies of the Classical Weimar Goethe's time and its social history.

Life

Bruford went to school in Manchester (Manchester Grammar School ) and studied at the University of Cambridge (St John 's College ) and the University of Zurich. In World War I he worked as a cryptographer in Room 40 at the British Admiralty. In 1920 he was Lecturer and Reader in 1923 of German at the University of Aberdeen and 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. 1939 to 1945 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. 1951 to 1961 he was Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge.

Bruford was recorded in 1965 as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

He last lived in Abbey St. Bathans in Berwickshire.

Writings

  • Germany in the eighteenth century: the social background of the literary revival, Cambridge University Press 1935
  • The social foundations of Goethe's time, Weimar, H. Böhlaus successor in 1936, reprint Ullsteinhaus Paperback 1987
  • German culture of Goethe's time, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Konstanz 1965
  • Chekhov and His Russia, a Sociological Study, London 1947
  • Anton Chekhov, Yale University Press 1957
  • Princess Gallitzin and Goethe. The ideal self-perfection and its limitations, Association for Research of the State North Rhine-Westphalia, Humanities 26, Köln 1957
  • Culture and society in classical Weimar, 1775-1806, Cambridge University Press 1962
  • First Steps in German Fifty Years Ago, Cambridge, Modern Humanities Research Association, 1965
  • The German Tradition of Self- cultivation Education from Humboldt to Thomas Mann, Cambridge University Press 1975
  • Some German Memories 1911-1961, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 1980
  • Literary Interpretation in Germany, Cambridge University Press 1952
  • With Joseph John Findlay: Sound and Symbol. A Scheme Of Instruction, Introductory To School Courses in Modern Languages ​​And Shorthand, Kessinger Publ 1917
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