The Schröder Professorship of German is the senior professorship in the study of the German language at the University of Cambridge, and was founded in 1909 by a donation of £20,000 from Sir John Henry Freiherr von Schröder, Bt. of J. H. Schröder & Co, a City of London banking firm.
Schröder Professors
- Karl Hermann Breul (1910)
- Robert Allan Williams (1932)
- Eliza Marian Butler (1944)
- Walter Horace Bruford (1951)
- Leonard Wilson Forster (1961)
- Dennis Howard Green (1979)
- Roger Cole Paulin (1989)
- Nicholas Boyle (2006)
- Sarah Colvin (2014)
References
- http://www.vifabbi.de/fabian?Libraries_In_The_Britisch_Isles
- Newspaper report: "Too much German"