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Hermann Georg Fiedler

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In 1899, Hermann Fiedler married his former pupil Ethel Mary (1870/71–1933, a daughter of Charles Harding), who wrote a diary covering their marriage between 1899 and 1922. They had two daughters, Herma (born 1902) and Beryl (born 1913). Beryl died on 2 May 1920, which caused serious
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leanings. Fiedler never published a full-length scholarly monograph, but focused on pedagogy and collecting manuscripts of German authors. These formed the core of an important collection at the
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Hermann Georg Fiedler (1862–1945) was lecturer in German at Mason College, Birmingham (a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham), with a doctorate from Leipzig. ...
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with the United Kingdom and thus given rise to hopes for peace, Fiedler represented the United Kingdom at the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the
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rule in Germany, Fiedler continued to work for understanding between Germany and the United Kingdom. In August 1935, two months after
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and was in charge of the extension of the Taylor Institution, which was opened in 1932 by the
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In October 1890, Fiedler was then appointed Professor of German at
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In 1926, Fiedler was appointed secretary to the curators of the
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during his career, particularly an anthology of German verse (
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He was an important figure in the English Goethe Society.
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Ethel Mary (1870/71–1933, daughter of Charles Harding)
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Herma (born 1902); Beryl (born 1913, died 2 May 1920)
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Friedrich Zarncke

Zittau
Kingdom of Saxony
Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature
Alma mater
Leipzig University
Thesis
Friedrich Zarncke
German studies
German philology
Queen Margaret College
University of Glasgow
Mason College
University of Birmingham
University of Oxford
German language
literature
Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature
University of Oxford
Mason College
Birmingham University
Zittau
Kingdom of Saxony
University of Leipzig
German philology
literature
Friedrich Zarncke
Queen Margaret College
University of Glasgow

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