Albert, Francis Charles, Prince Consort
(male)
08/26/1819 - 12/14/1861
German
University of Bonn
Consort of Queen Victoria; managed royal household, supported Great Exhibition of 1851. See Boase I: 38-9, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bernays, Adolphus
(male)
05/18/1795 - 12/22/1864
German
Professor of German at King's College, London; wrote German Poetry for Beginners (1836) and other works. See Boase I: 257
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Biber, George Edward
(male)
09/04/1801 - 01/19/1874
German
Writer and cleric; born in Germany but naturalized by vote of parliament; vicar of Holy Trinity, Roehampton; wrote for the English Review, the Churchman's Magazine, the Literary Churchman; edited John Bull. See Boase I: 269, ODNB.
Blind, Mathilde (Cohen)
(female)
03/21/1841 - 11/26/1896
German
Poet, essayist and critic; a leading "New Woman" writer; wrote in Westminster Review, Dark Blue, other periodicals; wrote a biography of George Eliot; wrote the poem "The Ascent of Man" (1889).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Buchheim, Charles Adolphus
(male)
1828 - 06/04/1900
German
University of Vienna
Professor of the German language and German literature at King's College, London; published annotated translations of German classics.
Deutsch, Emmanuel Oscar Menahem
(male)
10/28/1829 - 05/12/1873
German
Semitic scholar; assistant librarian at British Museum; wrote articles for Chalmer's Cyclopedia and other books. See Boase I: 867.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Edersheim, Alfred
(male)
1825 - 03/16/1889
German
Univ. Hesse Casssel
Biblical scholar and ordained priest; select preacher at Oxford 1884-5; wrote History of the Jewish Nation After the Destruction of Jerusalem (1856), Jewish Social Life In the Days of Christ (1876) and other works. See Boase I: 953.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Egestorff, George Henry [Christian]
(male)
05/23/1783
German
Translator, musician, teacher. Alive in May 1866. See Cyrus Redding, Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men.
Eggeling, Heinrich Julius
(male)
07/12/1842 - 1918
German
Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh; came to England in 1867.
Ethé, Carl Hermann
(male)
02/13/1844 - 06/07/1917
German
Orientalist; translated Persian poetry; assistant librarian at the Bodleian; professor of Oriental languages at University College, University of Wales.
Flight, Walter
(male)
1844 - 11/06/1885
German
University of London
Chemist; worked in the Mineralogical Department of the British Museum; fellow of the Royal Society.
Frankfurter, Oskar
(male)
02/23/1852 - 10/01/1922
German
University of Berlin; University of Gottingen
Linguist and scholar; expert in Sanskrit; translator and civil servant in Siam; senior librarian of the National Library of Thailand in Bangkok.
Frazer, Lilly
(female)
1854 - 05/07/1941
German
Born Elisabeth Adelsdorfer in Alsace; wife of Sir James Frazer; wrote History of Dancing (about 1896), promotted her husband's work; supported the teaching of foreigh languages.
Freiligarth, Ferdinand
(male)
06/17/1810 - 03/17/1876
German
Bank clerk and poet; naturalized in England in 1858; collected poems published in six volumes in 1877. See Boase I: 1105.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Garnier, Joseph Heinrich
(male)
1800 - 1855
German
Refugee living in London; Wellesley lists as "Garnier, J.H." without life dates; 1800 is estimated birth year. O’Grady, VPR 24 (1991), 150.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Gumpach, Johannes von
(male)
1819 - 1875
German
Living in 1865; deceased by 1876; naturalized in 1857. EMC, VPR 34 (2001), 354-355.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Haas, James D.
(male)
German
Teacher in Glasgow; translated works by Pichler, Zschokke, Kohlrausch, others; active 1820s – 1850s. See BL: James D. Haas.
Hueffer, Francis
(male)
05/22/1845 - 01/19/1889
German
University of Gottingen
Writer and journalist on music; from 1878 music critic for the Times; translated the correspondence of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt to English; editor of the Musical World.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Julius, Nikolaus Heinrich
(male)
10/03/1773 - 08/20/1862
German
University of Heidelberg
Michelsen, Dr. Edward
(male)
1795 - 06/24/1870
German
Originally named Michalowitz; see RLF # 888; born in Dresden; lived in USA and England; wrote The Ottoman Empire and its Resources (1853), England Since the Accession of Queen Victoria (1854) and other works of history. See Boase VI: 203-4.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)