Terence James Reed, FBA (born 1937), known professionally as Jim Reed, is a scholar of

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. He was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the

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from 1989 to 2004. Born in 1937, Reed completed his undergraduate studies at

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the m ...

, where he was also a

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from 1961 to 1963. In 1963, he was elected to a

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ship at

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, where he remained until taking up the Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the

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in 1989 (whereupon he was elected to a fellowship at

The Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...

). He retired in 2004."Professor Jim Reed FBA"
''

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''. Retrieved 10 September 2019. In 1987, Reed was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities. He received the research prize of the

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in 2002 and the Gold Medal of the Goethe Society in 1999, and was awarded an

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by the

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in 2010. In 2004, volume 33 of the ''

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'', edited by Tom Kuhn, was offered as a tribute to Reed and is a ''

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'' marking his retirement.Tom Kuhn
"Preface"
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'', vol. 33 (2004), pp. 1–2.

Publications

* ''Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition'' (Clarendon Press, 1974; 2nd ed., 1996). * ''The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar'' (Croom Helm, 1979). * ''Goethe'' (Oxford University Press, 1984). * ''Schiller'' (Oxford University Press, 1991). * In German: ''Mehr Licht in Deutschland - Eine kleine Geschichte der Aufklärung'' (C.H. Beck Verlag, 2009) Additionally, Reed's Bithell Memorial Lecture for 1994 was "Genesis: Some Episodes in Literary Creation".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Jim Living people 1937 births Germanists Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford Taylor Professors of the German Language and Literature Fellows of the British Academy