Eliza Marian Butler

Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959),[1] was an English linguist, academic, and scholar of German who successively held two prestigious endowed professorships:[2] the Henry Simon Chair in German (1936–1944)[3] at University of Manchester; and the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge (from 1945). She was the first women ever appointed to either of these chairs.[2] Controversial when first published, and banned in Germany, her 1935 book The Tyranny of Greece over Germany, became a classic of German cultural analysis in the English-speaking world after the Second World War.[4] In addition to academic works, published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, she published two novels and a memoir.

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    • "Dr. E. M. Butler. Learning and letters". Obituaries. The Times. London. 14 November 1959.
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      • Roberts, Frank C., ed. (1979). "Dr. E. M. Butler". Obituaries from The Times, 1951-1960 – including an index to all obituaries and tributes appearing in the Times during the years 1951–1960. Reading, England: Meckler Books. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-930466-16-9.
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  3. ^ Sagarra, Eda (October 1998). "The Centenary of the Henry Simon Chair of German at the University Of Manchester (1996): Commemorative Address". German Life and Letters. 51 (4): 509–524. doi:10.1111/1468-0483.00114.
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