J. P. Stern

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Joseph Peter Stern, in full: Joseph Peter Maria Stern (December 25, 1920November 18, 1991), was an authority on German literature. He was Professor at University College London from 1972 to 1986.

He was born in Prague, and died in Cambridge, England.

[edit] Works

  • Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by R.W., Meyer (1952) translator
  • Ernst Jünger (1953)
  • Lichtenberg. A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions Reconstructed from His Aphorisms and Reflections (1959)
  • Re-interpretations : Seven Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (1964)
  • Liebelei/Leutnant Gustl/Die Letzten Masken by Arthur Schnitzler (1966) editor
  • Thomas Mann (1967)
  • Idylls & Realities. Studies in Nineteenth - Century German Literature (1971) editor
  • Hitler: the Führer and the people (1975)
  • Nietzsche - His Life, Work, Writings and Ideas (1978)
  • A Study of Nietzsche (1979)
  • The World of Franz Kafka (1980) editor
  • Nietzsche on Tragedy (1981).with MS Silk
  • Nietzsche - Die Moralität der äußeren Anstrengung (1982)
  • Paths and Labyrinths. Nine Papers read at a Kafka Symposium (1985) editor with J. J. White
  • The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism (1995)

[edit] References

  • Ritchie Robertson, An appreciation of the work of Siegbert Prawer, J.P. Stern and George Steiner, in Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (eds), German Literature, Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002), pp. 237-61
  • M. Beddow, J. P. Stern: a memoir, Proceedings of the British Academy