Hermann Georg Fiedler

Mason College, now the University of Birmingham

Hermann Georg Fiedler (1862–1945), was a German scholar, who became Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (1907–37).^[1] He was previously lecturer in German at Mason College (which later became Birmingham University).^[2]

Biography

He was born in 1862. He received a doctorate from the University of Leipzig. He was instrumental in the setting up of University of Birmingham. He was a member of the initial committee of 9 set up in 1894 by Robert Heath. He married a daughter of Charles Harding.^[2]

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