About Edward Timms
Lived 1937 – 2018 (aged 80–81). Edward Timms was a British germanist, literary scholar, university teacher, historian and man of letters.
Edward Timms (1937 in Windlesham, England – 21 November 2018 in Brighton, England) OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies (which he founded in 1994) at the University of Sussex. His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud. Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist (1986 and 2005) is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Habsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.
He died on 21 November 2018 at the age of 81.
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Edward Timms was born in 1937 in Windlesham, United Kingdom.
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Edward Timms was a germanist, literary scholar, university teacher, historian and man of letters.
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