Christopher Middleton

British, 1926 - 2015

Christopher Middleton was a British poet, professor, and translator. He specialized in Germanic languages and literature, and was a professor at the University of Texas from 1966 to 1998. He has translated works from many German authors, including Nietzsche, Hölderlin, and Hoffman, and has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, as well as the Schlegel-Tieck prize for translation.