Edward Timms


Edward Timms OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex. His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud. Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Hapsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.
He died on 21 November 2018 at the age of 81.

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