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German-/Austrian-origin Professors of German in British Universities During the First World War

German-/Austrian-origin Professors of German in British Universities During the First World War Christopher T. Husbands German-/Austrian-origin Professors of German in British Universities During the First World War The Lessons of Four Case Studies I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire. (G K Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse, Book 1, ‘The Vision of the King’) An earlier article by this author on the same theme as this one presented all that could then be discovered about the treatment of Karl Wichmann (1868–1948) dur- ing the First World War by the University of Birmingham, where he had been Pro- fessor of German since 1907. Wichmann was prevailed upon to resign his profes- sorship in March 1917. However, he was far from the only German-origin academic, of professorial status or below, who encountered actual or threatened dismissal by British higher education institutions at that time. This article gives detailed case-study analyses of four further such examples that, unlike the article concentrating solely on Wichmann, asks whether it is pos- sible to use them for the comparative analysis of their different outcomes. All in- stitutions concerned were operating in the same political context from the Home Office and the War Office about the treatment of enemy aliens and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angermion de Gruyter

German-/Austrian-origin Professors of German in British Universities During the First World War

Husbands, Christopher T.
Angermion , Volume 15 (1): 44 – Nov 21, 2022
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Christopher T. Husbands German-/Austrian-origin Professors of German in British Universities During the First World War The Lessons of Four Case Studies I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire. (G K Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse, Book 1, ‘The Vision of the King’) An earlier article by this author on the same theme as this one presented all that could then be discovered about the treatment of Karl Wichmann (1868–1948) dur- ing the First World War by the University of Birmingham, where he had been Pro- fessor of German since 1907. Wichmann was prevailed upon to resign his profes- sorship in March 1917. However, he was far from the only German-origin academic, of professorial status or below, who encountered actual or threatened dismissal by British higher education institutions at that time. This article gives detailed case-study analyses of four further such examples that, unlike the article concentrating solely on Wichmann, asks whether it is pos- sible to use them for the comparative analysis of their different outcomes. All in- stitutions concerned were operating in the same political context from the Home Office and the War Office about the treatment of enemy aliens and

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Published: Nov 21, 2022

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