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

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, 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,

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, London (1969). Two of Bock's noted PhD students were

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and John Fletcher.

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