John Edward Fletcher

John Edward Fletcher (18 January 1940 – 1 June 1992) was a British-Australian scholar best known for his research and publications on Athanasius Kircher as well as several other Germans who had lived in and/or influenced Australia.

Overview

Education John Edward Fletcher was born in the industrial city of Bradford in Yorkshire to a printer/soldier father and a millworker mother. There he attended Thornton Grammar School of which in his final year he became Dux and School Captain.

Late life

Soon after his arrival in Sydney, John Fletcher joined the Friends of the University Library and as a committee member, its treasurer, secretary and, at the time of his death, president.

Select bibliography

Kircher Fletcher, John E., "A brief survey of the unpublished correspondence of Athanasius Kircher S J. (1602–80)", in: Manuscripta, XIII, St. Louis, 1969, pp. 150–60. Fletcher, John E., "Johann Marcus Marci writes to Athanasius Kircher", in: Janus, Leyden, LIX (1972), pp. 97–118 Fletcher, John E., "Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum gelehrten Europa seiner Zeit", Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1986 (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung series, Band 17). Fletcher, John E., "Johann Marcus Marci writes to Athanasius Kircher", in: Janus, 59 (1972), pp 95–118. Fletcher, John E., Athanasius Kircher : A Man Under Pressure. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. Fletcher, John E., Athanasius Kircher and Duke August of Brunswick-Lüneberg : A Chronicle of Friendship. Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. Fletcher, John E., Athanasius Kircher and His Correspondence. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. Fletcher, John E., Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum gelehrten Europa seiner Zeit, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. Fletcher, John E., A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, "Germanus Incredibilis" . Edited by Elizabeth Fletcher. Brill Publications, Amsterdam, 2011.

Other John E. Fletcher, "German Books (1501–1800) in Australian Libraries: A Survey", in: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Volume 31, 1969, Issue 1, pp. 40–62. John Fletcher, Georg Philipp Harsdoerfer, Nuernberg, und Athanasius Kircher, Nuernberg: Verein fuer Geschichte der Stadt Nuernberg, 1972. John Fletcher and Marlene Norst, German Language Books in the Libraries of Canberra, Melbourne and New South Wales, North Ryde, N.S.W., Macquarie University, School of Modern Languages, German Section, 1972. John Fletcher, St. James' Church, Forest Lodge : A Chronicle of Parish Life (1877-1977), Forest Lodge, N.S.W.: St. James' Church, 1977. Axel Clark, John Fletcher and Robin Marsden, eds., Between Two Worlds: "Loss of Faith" and Late Nineteenth Century Australian Literature: Essays By Vincent Buckley ... [et al.], Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979. John Fletcher and Rose Smith, A Short-Title Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books Held in Libraries and Private Collections in New South Wales, with a List of Provenances, Sydney: Library Council of New South Wales, 1979. Johannes H. Voigt, John Fletcher and John A. Moses, eds., New Beginnings: Germans in New South Wales and Queensland: A Commemorative Volume (Neuanfänge: Deutsche in New South Wales und Queensland: eine Festschrift), Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations/Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1983. John Edward Fletcher, John Degotardi : Printer, Publisher And Photographer, Sydney: Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1984. John Edward Fletcher, German Manuscripts (1538-1864) in the Libraries of Sydney: A Descriptive Catalogue, Sydney : Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1988. John Fletcher, Poetry Books and Poetry Broadsheets Published from 1950 to 1980 in South Wales: A Catalogue, Sydney: Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1989. John Fletcher, The Story of William Nathaniel Pratt (1847-1933) and the Poems That Weren't Published in 1917, Sydney: Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1990. John Edward Fletcher, The Jane Windeyer Bookplate Collection in the University of Sydney Library : A Catalogue, Sydney : Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1990. John Fletcher, Frederick Sefton Delmer: From Herman Grimm and Arthur Streeton to Ezra Pound, Sydney: Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1991. John Edward Fletcher, Hermann Lau and His Sojourns (1854-1859) in Sydney, Goulburn, Braidwood, Araluen, Moruya and Shoalhaven, Sydney: Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 1991.