About Leonard Forster
Lived 1913 – 1997 (aged 84). Leonard Forster was a British germanist and university teacher.
Leonard Wilson Forster (30 March 1913 – 18 April 1997) was an English linguist and academic. He was successively Professor of German at University College London, and Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge.
Life and work Born in London, Forster was the godchild (and son) of Leonard Llewelyn Bulkeley Williams. Forster studied at Marlborough College, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages (a contemporary of Donald MacLean) and from where he obtained his BA in 1934 and MA in 1938, and the University of Basel, where he was awarded a PhD in 1938.
Family He married Jeanne Marie Louise Billeter of Basel in 1939 and they had one son, Thomas, and two daughters. He died in Cambridge in 1997.
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Who was Leonard Forster?
British professor of German (1913–1997)
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Leonard Forster was born on 30 March 1913 in London.
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Leonard Forster died on 18 April 1997 in Cambridge.
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Leonard Forster was a germanist and university teacher.
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Leonard Forster was British.
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