The Schröder Professorship of German is the senior professorship in the study of the German language at the University of Cambridge, and was founded in 1909 by a donation of £20,000 from Sir John Henry Freiherr von Schröder, Bt. of J. H. Schröder & Co, a City of London banking firm.
Schröder Professors
edit- Karl Hermann Breul (1910)
- Robert Allan Williams (1932)
- Eliza Marian Butler (1944)
- Walter Horace Bruford (1951)
- Leonard Wilson Forster (1961)
- Dennis Howard Green (1979)
- Roger Cole Paulin (1989)
- Nicholas Boyle (2006)[1]
- Sarah Colvin (2014)
References
edit- ^ "Elections, appointments, and reappointments". Cambridge University Reporter (6046). 9 August 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2019.