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Membership is open to any person who holds a full-time or part-time teaching or research appointment within the field of or including German Studies at a university in Great Britain or Ireland, or at a college within such a university. Since 1967 the CUTG has published an annual survey of Research in Germanic Studies. In 1986 the Conference established a fund for Postgraduate Travelling Scholarships; further initiatives in recent years include the CUTG website (1996), the CUTG-sponsored e-mail discussion list german-studies (1998), a series of annual publications of proceedings from the meetings of the Conference, and further funds to support Publication Scholarships and an annual Essay Prize. University of London, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies Sacker, Hugh D (1925-2017) Germanic Studies scholarMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator Hugh Sacker was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, to Fred Sacker, an industrialist, and his wife, May (nee Potts). Hugh was educated at Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex. After doing military service in 1943-47 in Palestine, he studied medieval German literature at Cambridge. He held a lectureship at University College London in the 1950s and early 1960s before he moved in 1965 to Bedford College London. He left in about 1968 to go to Australia but returned to Britain in 1970; he was appointed Professor at Trinity College Dublin in about 1971 and retired early in 1975. His principal publications were An Introduction to Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’ (Cambridge: CUP, 1963), Selected Poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (Oxford: Blackwell, 1965), An Introductory Middle High German Text: Hartmann von Aue’s ‘Der arme Heinrich’ as printed by C. H. Myller (London: Harrap, 1964) and The Nibelungenlied: An Interpretative Commentary, with D. G. Mowatt (Toronto: Toronto UP, 1967). Sacker took early retirement in 1975 and settled in Knockandarragh in Ireland. Flood, John Lewis (1938-2021) German Studies scholar Scope and ContentThis archive was created and accumulated as a result of a project initiated in the mid-1960s by Professor Frederick Norman of Kings College London, who suggested that the that Conference of University Teachers of German (CUTG) in Great Britain and Ireland compile a history of German Studies teaching in the UK. The CUTG charged Hugh D. Sacker, then on the academic staff of London University, with carrying out this research, and the core of the material in this archive was sent in response to the appeal he made to university German departments nationwide in 1965-1966 for scholars’ reminiscences and historical accounts of German Studies teaching at their institutions. Sacker left the material he gathered in the course of this project at the Institute of Germanic Studies when he left London in c. 1970. It contains correspondence and papers of sub-committee convened by HDS (1965-1967), including replies from the Universities of Aberdeen, Bangor (University College of North Wales), Birmingham, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, St Andrews, Sheffield, Glasgow, King's College London, University College London, Liverpool, Birkbeck College London, Royal Holloway College London, Queen Mary College London, and Keele; open reel tapes with accompanying transcripts of recordings of personal accounts on the history of German Studies, subjects include Professor Frederick Norman, Oliver Edwards, F H Sandbach (on his father F E Sandbach, Professor of German, University of Birmingham) and L W Forster. Professor John Flood, as Secretary of the CUTG, persuaded Günther Kloss (University of Manchester) to continue interviewing retired Germanists after HDS's departure from London and abandonment of the project, but on GK's death the material he had gathered was not deposited in the archive and the project was never completed. However, Professor Flood himself, as Deputy Director of the IGS, continued to add material relating to the history of German Studies, and so in addition to the core material gathered by Hugh Sacker, the archive includes a number of other items which shed light on individual university German departments, German Studies scholars and the teaching of German Studies in UK HE institutions more generally. Conditions governing accessOpen. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits. Extent2 boxes, 5 open reel tapes Physical descriptionPaper records and open reel audio tapes System of ArrangementSeries 1: University German departments: historical accounts and reminiscences Series 2: Individual German Studies scholars: reminiscences Series 3: oral history recordings by individual German Studies scholars Series 4: Miscellaneous articles, reports and other publications relating to the history of German Studies teaching Finding aidsBox listed to file level. A pdf version is attached to this description. Related files http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/hgs_catalogue.pdf Level of descriptionfonds Hierarchy browser contains 4 parts History and Development of German Studies HGS \| 1856-1998 fonds

TitleHistory and Development of German Studies

Held atUniversity of London, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Reference codeHGS

Date1856-1998

Creator
- Conference of University Teachers of GermanMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  The Conference of University Teachers of German (CUTG) was founded in 1932, with the aim of of meeting annually 'to discuss matters pertaining to the study of German in all its branches, to promote the study thereof, to encourage research, and generally to foster high standards of competence among university teachers of German'. Membership is open to any person who holds a full-time or part-time teaching or research appointment within the field of or including German Studies at a university in Great Britain or Ireland, or at a college within such a university. Since 1967 the CUTG has published an annual survey of Research in Germanic Studies. In 1986 the Conference established a fund for Postgraduate Travelling Scholarships; further initiatives in recent years include the CUTG website (1996), the CUTG-sponsored e-mail discussion list german-studies (1998), a series of annual publications of proceedings from the meetings of the Conference, and further funds to support Publication Scholarships and an annual Essay Prize.
- University of London, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
- Sacker, Hugh D (1925-2017) Germanic Studies scholarMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  Hugh Sacker was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, to Fred Sacker, an industrialist, and his wife, May (nee Potts). Hugh was educated at Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex. After doing military service in 1943-47 in Palestine, he studied medieval German literature at Cambridge. He held a lectureship at University College London in the 1950s and early 1960s before he moved in 1965 to Bedford College London. He left in about 1968 to go to Australia but returned to Britain in 1970; he was appointed Professor at Trinity College Dublin in about 1971 and retired early in 1975. His principal publications were An Introduction to Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’ (Cambridge: CUP, 1963), Selected Poems of Walther von der Vogelweide (Oxford: Blackwell, 1965), An Introductory Middle High German Text: Hartmann von Aue’s ‘Der arme Heinrich’ as printed by C. H. Myller (London: Harrap, 1964) and The Nibelungenlied: An Interpretative Commentary, with D. G. Mowatt (Toronto: Toronto UP, 1967). Sacker took early retirement in 1975 and settled in Knockandarragh in Ireland.
- Flood, John Lewis (1938-2021) German Studies scholar

Scope and ContentThis archive was created and accumulated as a result of a project initiated in the mid-1960s by Professor Frederick Norman of Kings College London, who suggested that the that Conference of University Teachers of German (CUTG) in Great Britain and Ireland compile a history of German Studies teaching in the UK. The CUTG charged Hugh D. Sacker, then on the academic staff of London University, with carrying out this research, and the core of the material in this archive was sent in response to the appeal he made to university German departments nationwide in 1965-1966 for scholars’ reminiscences and historical accounts of German Studies teaching at their institutions. Sacker left the material he gathered in the course of this project at the Institute of Germanic Studies when he left London in c. 1970. It contains correspondence and papers of sub-committee convened by HDS (1965-1967), including replies from the Universities of Aberdeen, Bangor (University College of North Wales), Birmingham, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, St Andrews, Sheffield, Glasgow, King's College London, University College London, Liverpool, Birkbeck College London, Royal Holloway College London, Queen Mary College London, and Keele; open reel tapes with accompanying transcripts of recordings of personal accounts on the history of German Studies, subjects include Professor Frederick Norman, Oliver Edwards, F H Sandbach (on his father F E Sandbach, Professor of German, University of Birmingham) and L W Forster.
Professor John Flood, as Secretary of the CUTG, persuaded Günther Kloss (University of Manchester) to continue interviewing retired Germanists after HDS's departure from London and abandonment of the project, but on GK's death the material he had gathered was not deposited in the archive and the project was never completed. However, Professor Flood himself, as Deputy Director of the IGS, continued to add material relating to the history of German Studies, and so in addition to the core material gathered by Hugh Sacker, the archive includes a number of other items which shed light on individual university German departments, German Studies scholars and the teaching of German Studies in UK HE institutions more generally.

Conditions governing accessOpen. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.

Extent2 boxes, 5 open reel tapes

Physical descriptionPaper records and open reel audio tapes

System of ArrangementSeries 1: University German departments: historical accounts and reminiscences Series 2: Individual German Studies scholars: reminiscences Series 3: oral history recordings by individual German Studies scholars Series 4: Miscellaneous articles, reports and other publications relating to the history of German Studies teaching

Finding aidsBox listed to file level. A pdf version is attached to this description.

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http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/hgs_catalogue.pdf

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