Professor Barry Nisbet
College:
Sidney Sussex College
Positions:
Professor of Modern Languages (German) Emeritus
Department of German and Dutch
Postal Address:
Sidney Sussex College
Sidney Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 3HU
Email:
hbn1000@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 338877
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Barry Nisbet was Professor of Modern Languages (German) at the University of Cambridge from 1982 to 2007. He was previously Reader in German at the University of Bristol and Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. His speciality is the literature and thought of eighteenth-century Germany, and its relation to the European Enlightenment. He has written books on Herder and Goethe, edited six other books and published some fifty articles and over a hundred reviews on related topics. At different times, he has served as General Editor and Germanic Editor of
Modern Language Review, and he is joint General Editor, with Claude Rawson of Yale University, of the
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, eight of whose projected nine volumes have so far appeared. He has also translated four volumes of works by Kant and Hegel for Cambridge University Press. In 1998, he was awarded a Humboldt Prize for research on Lessing, of whom he is currently writing a critical biography.
