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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Claus Bock
- Claus Victor Bock (7 May 1926 – 5 January 2008) was a professor of German studies. 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 PhD 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).
- Two of Bock's noted PhD students were Jeremy Adler and John Fletcher.
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