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J.P. Stern Papers

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Professor Peter Stern (photo from the Institute archives)

Joseph Peter Maria Stern was born in 1920 into a Catholic-Jewish family in Prague. Most of his schooling was in Czechoslovakia, except for one year in Bavaria. He escaped to the UK via Poland in 1939 and after some time in a Czech squadron in the RAF, completed first his undergraduate degree, then his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He went on to become one of the most distinguished German Studies scholars of his generation, serving as Chair of German at University College London from 1972 until 1986. He was Professor-at-Large at Cornell University between 1976 and 1982 and, from 1981 until 1986, Honorary Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies (now Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies), University of London. He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1990. He died in 1991.

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