Background
Skutsch was born on 6 December 1906 in Breslau, then in the German Empire. He was six years old when his father died.
university professor classical philologist
Skutsch was born on 6 December 1906 in Breslau, then in the German Empire. He was six years old when his father died.
He was educated at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau. He then studied at the University of Breslau, the University of Kiel, the University of Berlin, and the University of Göttingen. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) degree at Göttingen in 1934.
He was Professor of Latin at University College London from 1951 to 1972. He was the third child of Franz Skutsch, a German classical philologist. With the rise of the Nazi Party seen as a threat to himself, his father was Jewish, he left Germany for the United Kingdom in 1934 or 1935.
Having arrived in the United Kingdom, Skutsch secured a post at the University of Street Andrews as a research assistant working on the compilation a dictionary of Latin.
From 1938 to 1939, he was a senior assistant at Queen"s University Belfast. With the outbreak of World World War II in September 1939, he was interred for the extent of the war as an enemy alien.
He was granted British citizenship in 1946. In 1949, he joined the University of Manchester as a senior lecturer in classics.
In 1951, he was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London.
In 1972, he retired and was appointed professor emeritus. From 1972 to 1973 and again in 1981, he was Visiting Andrew Mellon Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh.