Deliverance

Daniel Johnson

  • The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism by J.P. Stern
    Cambridge, 445 pp, £40.00, February 1995, ISBN 0 521 43330 4

Cambridge only woke up to the great achievements of Peter Stern when he died there aged 70 in 1991. Stern’s adoptive university, to which he found himself evacuated from the LSE after arriving from Prague as a refugee from Nazi anti-Semitism, became his home for half a century; but although he taught there for many years and remained devoted to his college, St John’s, Cambridge failed adequately to recognise his stature during his lifetime.

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