John Flood (Germanist)

John Lewis Flood, FRHistS (22 September 1938 – 4 November 2021) was an English literary scholar, described as "one of the great figures of German Studies in the United Kingdom".[1] A graduate of and later lecturer at the University of Nottingham,[2] he was professor of German at the University of London from 1993 to 2002 and deputy director of the University of London Institute of Germanic Studies.[3]

Bibliography

  • John L. Flood (ed.), Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity (London: St Martin's Press, 1985)
  • John L. Flood (ed.), "Ein Moment Des Erfahrenen Lebens": Zur Lyrik der DDR, Beiträge zu einem Symposium (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987).
  • John L. Flood and David N. Yeandle (eds), "Mit Regulu Bithuungan": Neue Arbeiten zur Althochdeutschen Poesie und Sprache (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989).
  • John L. Flood (ed.), Kurz Bevor der Vorhang Fiel: Zum Theater der DDR (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990).
  • John L. Flood (ed.), Common Currency?: Aspects of Anglo-German Literary Relations since 1945 (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans Dieter Heinz, 1991).
  • John L. Flood (ed.), Die Historie von Herzog Ernst: Die Frankfurter Prosafassung des 16. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Schmidt, 1992).
  • John L. Flood and William Kelly (eds), The German Book, 1450–1750: Studies Presented to David L. Paisey in His Retirement (London: The British Library, 1995).
  • John L. Flood and David J. Shaw, Johannes Sinapius (1505–1560): Hellenist and Physician in Germany and Italy, Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance 311 (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1997).
  • Máire C. Davies, John L. Flood and David N. Yeandle (eds), "Proper Words in Proper Places": Studies in Lexicology and Lexicography in Honour of William Jervis Jones., (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2001).
  • John L. Flood, Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-Bibliographical Handbook, 4 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006).
  • John L. Flood and Anne Simon, Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German studies in the University of London (London: Institute of Modern Languages Research, 2017).

References

  1. ^ David Yeandle, "Obituary: John Lewis Flood (1938–2021)", German Life and Letters, vol. 75, no. 4 (October 2022), pp. 483–488.
  2. ^ David Yeandle, "Flood, John Lewis (1938–2021)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2025). Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Flood, Prof. John Lewis", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2025). Retrieved 13 June 2025.
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