J. P. Stern

Joseph Peter Stern, FBA (in full: Joseph Peter Maria Stern; December 25, 1920 – November 18, 1991), was an authority on German literature. He was educated in Prague, Vienna and St. John's College, where he took his MA in 1947. During the war he served in the Czechoslovakian army in exile. He took up a lectureship at Bedford College, London and then at Cambridge in 1952, returning to St. John's. He was Professor at University College London from 1972 to 1986. A prolific scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century German literature, he wrote on Nietzsche, Kafka, Rilke and Mann, and edited the series "Landmarks in World Literature". One of his most influential works was "On Realism" (1973). He was also known for his study "Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People", which was translated into several languages. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Works

• Leibniz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by R.W. Meyer (1952) translator
• Ernst Jünger (1953)
• Lichtenberg. A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions Reconstructed from His Aphorisms and Reflections (1959)
• Re-interpretations : Seven Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (1964)
• Liebelei/Leutnant Gustl/Die Letzten Masken by Arthur Schnitzler (1966) editor
• Thomas Mann (1967)
• Idylls & Realities. Studies in Nineteenth - Century German Literature (1971) editor
• Hitler: the Führer and the people (1975)
• Nietzsche (Fontana Modern Masters, 1978)
• Nietzsche - His Life, Work, Writings and Ideas (1978)
• A Study of Nietzsche (1979)
• The World of Franz Kafka (1980) editor
• Nietzsche on Tragedy (1981).with MS Silk
• Nietzsche - Die Moralität der äußeren Anstrengung (1982)
• Paths and Labyrinths. Nine Papers read at a Kafka Symposium (1985) editor with J. J. White
• The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism (1995)

References

• Ritchie Robertson, An appreciation of the work of Siegbert Prawer, J. P. Stern and George Steiner, in Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (eds), German Literature, Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002), pp. 237–61
• M. Beddow, J. P. Stern: a memoir, Proceedings of the British Academy

External links

• J. P. Stern at Find a Grave