Edward Timms
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Edward Timms (1937 in Windlesham, England – 21 November 2018 in Brighton, England) OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies (which he founded in 1994) at the University of Sussex.[http://eurojewishstudies.org/scholar_shortdisplay.php?idscholar=627 European Association for Jewish studies - Edward Timms] His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud.{{Cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2006/timms_e.html |title=The British Academy Fellowship |access-date=2008-02-16 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721043715/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2006/timms_e.html |archive-date=2012-07-21 |url-status=dead }} Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/edward-timms Professor Edward Timms OBE FBA] His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist (1986 and 2005) is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Habsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.{{cite news|last=Robertson|first=Ritchie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/27/edward-timms-obituary|title=Edward Timms obituary|work=The Guardian|date=27 December 2018|access-date=6 August 2019}}
Works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=6bd6K2KHq0gC Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna] (1986) Yale University Press {{ISBN|0-300-04483-6}} reviews: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3728643] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1347455] [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300044836] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212232246/http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300044836 |date=12 February 2012 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080423065353/http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-1914702,00.html]
- Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika (2005)
- Karl Kraus Und Die Fackel: Aufsatze Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte = Reading Karl Kraus Essays on the Reception of Die Fackel (German) (with G. J. Carr)
- Theatre and Performance in Austria: From Mozart to Jelinek (editor, with Richie Robertson)
- Vienna 1900: from Altenberg to Wittgenstein (editor, with Ritchie Robertson). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1990
- Taking up the Torch, Sussex University Press, 2011
Decorations and awards
- 2002: Karl von Vogelsang State Prize for the History of Science Society
- 2008: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = German | page=1876 |trans-title=| accessdate = 4 February 2013 }}
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External links
- [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/users/professor-edward-timms Professor Edward Timms] at The British Academy
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Category:Academics of the University of Sussex
Category:Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Category:Fellows of the British Academy
Category:Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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