Edward Timms, who has died aged 81, was a professor of German at Sussex University whose great work was the two-volume study Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist (1986 and 2005). In addition, Edward (with me as the junior partner) established the still surviving yearbook Austrian Studies. After attending Christ’s Hospital school, West Sussex, Edward studied modern languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he soon dropped French to concentrate on German. Saime and Edward collaborated on a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, Romantic Communist (1999), based on oral history. Saime interviewed some 35 people in Turkey who had known Hikmet, and Edward digested these and other materials into a narrative.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2018 17:26 UTC