Eliza Marian Butler

Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959), was an English linguist, academic, and scholar of German who successively held two prestigious endowed professorships: at University of Manchester; and the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge (from 1945). She was the first woman ever appointed to either of these chairs. and treated the victims of the German assault.

Career After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge and in 1936 became a professor at the University of Manchester. Her works include a trilogy on ritual magic and the occult, especially in the Faust legend (1948–1952).

Personal life Butler had a long-term committed relationship with fellow-scholar Isaline Blew Horner. From 1926 until Butler's death, the two lived and travelled together.

Butler died in London on 13 November 1959.