Atkins, Henry Gibson

Title

Prof.

First name(s)

Henry Gibson

Surname

Atkins

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Professor of German, 1900-1937
• Fellow, 1912
• Assistant Principal, 1919-1923 & 1925-1937

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Queen Elisabeth Grammar School, Atherstone, Warwickshire
• Studied privately in France and Germany
• Trinity College, Cambridge

 

Professional activities

• Member of the University of London Senate, 1918-1933 and of the University Court, 1929-1933
• Joint Editor of the Modern Language Review

Publications

• A short history of French literature with Professor Leon Emile Kastner, (Blackie and Son, London, 1900)
• Goethe's Poems with Professor Kastner, (Blackie and Son, London, 1902)
• A skeleton French grammar (Blackie and Sons, London, 1902)
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Methuen and Co, London, 1904)
• The teaching of modern foreign languages in school and university (with Henry Leonard Hutton), (Edward Arnold, London, 1920)
• A history of German versification (Methuen and Co, London, 1923)
• The student in purgatory (translated from Hans Sachs); Heine...with a portrait (Routledge and Sons, London
  E P Dutton and Co, New York, 1929)
• The poems of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1933)
• German literature through Nazi eyes (Methuen and Co, London, 1941)

Personal details

Date of birth

1871

Date of death

1942