Under the auspices of the German Studies Library Group and in association with the British Library, a lecture in memory of Graham Nattrass (1940-2012) will be delivered on Tuesday 24 June 2025 at the British Library, St Pancras, London. The event will be held in the Foyle Suite; refreshments will be served.
16.00: GSLG AGM at The British Library—GSLG members to meet no later than 16.00
17.30: Refreshments will be served prior to the Lecture
18.00: Lecture
The topic of the lecture is as follows:
‘A Romantic Survivor? Anna Katharina Emmerich’s “Das Bittere Leiden unseres Herrn Jesu Christi” (1833)’
The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Roger Paulin, Emeritus Schröder Professor of German, Cambridge University.
A specialist in German literature from 1500-1900, with particular interest in the Goethezeit and Romanticism, Prof. Paulin has taught at the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, and Cambridge. From 1989 to 2005 he was Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He received a Humboldt-Preis in 2002 and in 2011 was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz. His publications include Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Academic Freedom (Cambridge, 1990), Theodor Storm (Munich, 1992), and The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (Cambridge, 2016, Paderborn, 2017).
There is no charge to attend the Lecture—which is open to all—but places are limited.
If you intend to come, please email Dorothea Miehe, Chair of the German Studies Libraries Group–dorothea.miehe@bl.uk.
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