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Nicholas Boyle
British academic
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Nicholas Boyle | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1946-06-18) 18 June 1946 (age 78) London |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Nationality | British |
Nicholas BoyleFBA (born 18 June 1946) is an English literary critic.
Nicholas boyle goethe biography
He is the emeritus Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has written widely on German literature, intellectual history and religion and is known particularly for his award-winning extensive biography of Goethe (of which two of a projected three volumes have been published).[1] Boyle became a fellow of the British Academy in 2000.[2]
Life and work
Boyle was educated at King's School, Worcester, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was awarded BA and PhD degrees.
He was a research fellow at Magdalene from 1968 to 1972, before becoming respectively an assistant lecturer, lecturer, and reader in German at