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Jethro Bithell

1878 – 1962

Bithell, Jethro, German scholar

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Lived 1878 – 1962 (aged 84). Jethro Bithell was a poet, germanist and translator.

Jethro Bithell (29 January 1878 – 26 February 1962 in Paignton) was a collier's son, born at Birchall Farm, Hindley, near Wigan. He graduated with first-class honours in Modern Languages from Owens College, Manchester, in 1900. After gaining his M.A. there, he continued his studies in Munich and Copenhagen and then returned to Manchester as Lecturer in German. In 1910 he was appointed Head of the German Department at Birkbeck College, London, where he remained until his retirement in 1938.

Selected publications Contemporary German Poetry, 1909 Contemporary Belgian Poetry, 1911 Contemporary Belgian Literature, 1911 Contemporary French Poetry, 1912 Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck, 1913 Turandot, Princess of China: A Chinoiserie in Three Acts. (1913) (Translation of libretto for Ferrucio Busoni's opera Turandot by Carlo Gozzi and Karl Vollmöller) Germany: a Companion to German Studies (1932) Modern German Literature, 1880–1938 (1939) Anthology of German Poetry, 1880–1940 (1941)

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Bithell, Jethro, German scholar (1878–1962)

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Jethro Bithell was born on 17 January 1878.

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Jethro Bithell was a poet, germanist and translator.

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