Professor Peter Skrine

Emeritus Professor of German 

Professor Emeritus Peter Skrine (1989-2003) lectured on German literaturefrom the Reformation and Baroque period to the early 20th century, also offering specialist courses on the Swiss contribution to German literatureand on German popular literature. He instituted a successful subsidiary course in Dutch, which lapsed after his retirement. During his tenure he found time to write (with Eda Sagarra) Blackwell’s Companion to German Literature (1997) as well as numerous articles and reviews. He is also the author of The Baroque: Literature and Culture in 17th-century Europe(1978), Hauptmann, Wedekind and Schnitzler (1989) and (with Lilian Furst) Naturalism (1971).

Since his retirement his focus for research has shifted to 19th-century English literature and Anglo-German cultural relations, on which he gives lectures to various societies in both England and Germany. He is a member of the Bristol Anglo-German Society and the Bristol Music Club, and chairs the South-West branch of the Elizabeth Gaskell Society.