Roger Paulin

Roger Cole Paulin (born 1937) is a scholar of German literature and culture. He was the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1989 until his retirement in 2005.

Education Paulin was born in New Zealand, where he took his first degree in German and French, before researching for and being awarded a Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg in 1965.

Career Paulin taught at the universities of Birmingham and Bristol before moving to Cambridge in 1974 to take up a university lectureship and fellowship of Trinity College, as well as being admitted to the Cambridge MA. From 1987 to 1989 he was the Henry Simon Professor of German in the University of Manchester. In 1989 he returned to Cambridge to take up the Schröder Chair, serving from 1989 to 1996 as head of the Department of German. Following his retirement, he has remained a Fellow of Trinity College.

His wide-ranging research interests span the period 1500–1900, with a specific focus on the work of the Goethezeit, German Romanticism, and nineteenth-century German literature and culture. Alongside more than 85 articles and 11 edited and co-edited volumes