Ritchie Robertson
Editor, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College
About Ritchie Robertson
Born 1952. Ritchie Robertson is a British writer.
Ritchie Neil Ninian Robertson FBA (born 1952) is a British academic who was the Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature between 2010 and 2021. He was educated at Nairn Academy in the North of Scotland and at Edinburgh University, where he took two degrees, in English and German. He has been a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford since 2010. He is a former Germanic Editor of The Modern Language Review. Professor Robertson co-directs the Oxford Kafka Research Centre with Carolin Duttlinger and Professor Katrin Kohl. He also translates German literature into English, most recently Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus.
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Editor, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College
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Ritchie Robertson was born in 1952.
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Ritchie Robertson is a writer.
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