Background
Walter Horace Bruford was born in Manchester in 1894.
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Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 by W. H. Bruford (1962-01-02)
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The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann
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In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary middle-class German had never considered culture to include an interest in politics, and still did not do so. The idea of the true freedom which comes to the man who lives as much as possible in the invisible world of culture and accepts as a kind of fate his social, political and material circumstances was indeed at the heart of the German idealism of Goethe's day, and unworldliness went along with very great achievements in literature, scholarship and philosophy. Bildung, self-cultivation, came to be as natural a requirement of educated, middle-class life as sport was in England. In this book, originally published in 1975, Professor Bruford provides a sequel to Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 and shows how the ideal of self-cultivation entered into the thought of a number of highly individual German philosophers, theologians, poets and novelists, each in his own corner of the rapidly changing world of the nineteenth century.
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Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Social Background of the Literary Revival
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Germany in the eighteenth century: The social background of literary revival
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Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Social Background of the Literary Revival by W. H. Bruford (2011-01-02)
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Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806
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A paperback of the hardcover edition, first published in 1962. The book describes Goethe's Weimar from documents and research and interprets the connections between German culture and German society both in the age of Goethe and later. To this book Professor Bruford has written a sequel, The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation, and the two books together offer an introduction to the whole evolution of the German intellectual tradition.
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Walter Bruford
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Education
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then at Saint John"s College, Cambridge and the University of Zurich.
Career
During World War I he served with the Royal Navy cryptographic intelligence division in Room 40 at the Admiralty. After the war he conducted research Zurich, became a Lecturer in German at Aberdeen University in 1920, and then a Reader at Aberdeen in 1923. Bruford was then appointed Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh in 1929.
He was seconded to the Foreign Office during World World War II, 1939–1943, to work at Bletchley Park.
From 1951 he was Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge until 1961. He lived at Abbey Saint Bathans, Duns, Berwickshire.
Professor Walter Horace Bruford died in 1988.
Works
book
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The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann
(In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary ...)
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Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806
(A paperback of the hardcover edition, first published in ...)
- Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 by W. H. Bruford (1962-01-02)
- Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Social Background of the Literary Revival
- Germany in the eighteenth century: The social background of literary revival
- Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Social Background of the Literary Revival by W. H. Bruford (2011-01-02)
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The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann
Membership
Saxonian Academy of Sciences. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
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Born
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Nationality
United Kingdom