Education
In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter"s research on Hölderlin, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at Basle under Walter Muschg.
In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter"s research on Hölderlin, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at Basle under Walter Muschg.
After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his Alma Mater, he became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London (1958), then reader (1964), and finally professor of German, Westfield College, London (1969). One Bock"s noted Doctor of Philosophy students was Jeremy Adler.