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Max Theodor Wilhelm Förster (8 March 1869 – 10 November 1954) was a German scholar of Old English.

In 1934, Förster was forced to retire from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: he was an opponent of the Nazi regime and was married to a Jewish woman and had a Jewish student. He was a visiting professor at Yale University from 1934 to 1936. Wrongly thought to live in the United Kingdom, he was included in The Black Book, a SS list of prominent British residents to be arrested after the invasion of Britain.

Förster was a member of the Saxon and Bavarian Academies of Sciences, an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

References

  1. "Förster, Theodor Wilhelm Max". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Max Förster". www2.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. "Hitler's Black Book - information for Doctor Max Forster". www.forces-war-records.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-04.

4. Max Förster, Reliquienkultas.


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