Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson
Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson FBA (1909–2001) was an English scholar of German literature and culture.
Life[]
Wilkinson was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, on 17 September 1909, and educated at Whalley Range High School in Manchester.[1] She began studying German in 1929 at Bedford College, London, and took a Diploma in Education at Oxford in 1933.[1] After teaching at schools in Clapham and Southampton became a research student under Edna Purdie. In 1943 she obtained a doctorate from the University of London, with a thesis on Johann Elias Schlegel.[2]
Wilkinson briefly worked as an ambulance driver during the Second World War, and taught German at the relocated University College London department in Aberystwyth.[1] She collaborated closely with L. A. Willoughby throughout the 1940s and 1950s. She delivered the Taylorian Lecture in Oxford in 1959.[3] In 1961 she was appointed Professor of German at University College London, delivering her inaugural lecture on 25 October 1962.[4]
She was elected to the British Academy in 1972.[1] She retired in 1976, and a Festschrift was published in her honour in 1978, under the title Tradition and Creation.[1]
She died on 2 January 2001.[1]
Publications[]
- Schiller, Kabale und Liebe, edited by Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and L. A. Willoughby (1944)
- Johann Elias Schlegel: A German Pioneer in Aesthetics (1945)
- Goethe's Conception of Form (1951)
- Goethe: Poet and Thinker (1962)
- Goethe Revisited: A Collection of Essays, edited by Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson (1984)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f R. H. Stephenson. "Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson 1909–2001" (PDF). British Academy.
- ^ Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, "A critical study of Johann Elias Schlegel's aesthetic and dramatic theory", PhD Thesis, University of London, 1943.
- ^ Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Schiller: Poet or Philosopher? Special Taylorian lecture delivered 17 November 1959 (1961).
- ^ In Praise of Aesthetics (London, 1963)
- 1909 births
- 2001 deaths
- People from Keighley
- Alumni of Bedford College, London
- Academics of University College London
- Fellows of the British Academy