Walter Horace Bruford

Walter Horace Bruford MA, Hon LLD, Hon D.Litt, FBA, Hon D.Lett (July 14, 1894–June 28, 1988) was a British scholar of German literature.

During World War I he worked in Room 40, a Royal Navy cryptographic Intelligence Division, and during World War II he worked at Bletchley Park. He was Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh from 1929-51, and subsequently the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1951-61.

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Germany in the eighteenth century: the social background of the literary revival (1935)
Chekhov and His Russia, a Sociological Study (1947)
Theatre, drama, and audience in Goethe's Germany (1950)
Literary Interpretation in Germany (1952)
Anton Chekhov (1957)
Fürstin Gallitzin und Goethe. Das Selbstvervollkommnungsideal und seine Grenzen (1957)
Culture and society in classical Weimar, 1775-1806 (1962)
First Steps In German Fifty Years Ago (1965)
The German Tradition of Self-cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann (1975)
Some German Memories 1911-1961 (1979)

German studies. Presented to Walter Horace Bruford on his retirement by his pupils, colleagues, and friends (1962)