Claus Bock
Claus Victor Bock (7 May 1926 – 5 January 2008) was a professor of German studies.
In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter's research on Hölderlin, and obtained a PhD at Basle under Walter Muschg. After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his Alma Mater, he became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London (1958), then reader (1964), and finally professor of German, Westfield College, London (1969). One Bock's noted PhD students was Jeremy Adler.
Further reading
- Rosemary Combridge. Claus Victor Bock // " Publications of the English Goethe Society", Volume 79 Issue 1 (01 March 2010), pp. 2-4.
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