Charles Telford Carr (5 February 1905, Manchester – 10 March 1976, St Andrews) was a British academic, specialising in German, noted for his foundational work on nominal compounds in Germanic languages.
Life[edit]
Carr's parents were James, a solicitor's clerk, and Selena (née Mclean).[1]: 317
After studying at Manchester Grammar School,[1]: 317 Carr took a first class honours BA degree in modern languages at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1921–24,[2][3][4][1]: 317 also studying at Zurich University in 1924–25 and Vienna in 1925, and gaining a Manchester MA in 1926 with the thesis 'Die altsächsischen Nominal-komposita'.[1]: 317 He served as assistant lecturer in German at Birkbeck, University of London in 1925–26 and then in 1926–29 as lecturer in German at the University of Manchester.[2][3][4] He became Lecturer[2][3][4][1]: 317 and/or Reader[5] in German Language and Literature and Teutonic Philology in the University of St Andrews's United College in 1929.
Alongside his university teaching, Carr taught Literature and German in Dundee via the Workers' Educational Association in the 1930s[6][7][8] (though with an apparently acrimonious dispute over the fees, class-sizes, and entry requirements in 1939).[9][10][11][12]
In 1939, Carr took a D.Litt. degree at the University of St Andrews for his thesis 'Nominal Compounds in Germanic',[5][13] his best known work, characterised by John L. Flood as 'a major book'.[14]: 431 From 1939 to 1945 he worked for the Royal Navy in the wartime codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park.[1]: 317
In 1948, Carr was promoted to become St Andrews's first Professor of German, a position he held until his retirement in 1973.[14][1]: 317 He was also 'appointed General Editor of a three-volume Oxford History of the German Language, of which, however, only W. B. Lockwood's study of historical syntax (1968) and Charles Russ's volume on phonology and morphology (1978) appeared'.[14]: 432 In 1955–60 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and in 1968–72 as Master of United College.[1]: 317
In 1929 Carr married Marian Frances Hilton Roscoe, who died in 1948, and in 1952 Jean Margaret Berneaud, who died in 1998.[1]: 317 He was a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.[1]: 317
Publications[edit]
An extensive list of publications is provided by Peter Branscombe.[1]: 317
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Branscombe, 'Carr, Charles Telford', in Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011), pp. 317-18, ISBN 9783110908053.
- ^ a b c 'St Andrews University Appointment', Dundee Evening Telegraph (Friday, July 19, 1929).
- ^ a b c 'St Andrews Appointment', Aberdeen Journal (Saturday, July 20, 1929).
- ^ a b c 'St Andrews University Appointment', Dundee Courier (Saturday, July 20, 1929).
- ^ a b 'News', Dundee Courier (Sunday, May 29, 1939).
- ^ 'Adult Lectures at Cupar',Dundee Evening Telegraph (Monday, Jan. 19, 1931).
- ^ 'Teaching of German in Evening Classes', Dundee Evening Telegraph (Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1938).
- ^ 'Committee Replies to Students of German', Dundee Courier (Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1938).
- ^ 'Lecturer Absent, Protests', Dundee Courier (Saturday, Jan. 30, 1939).
- ^ 'Lecturer's Resignation Accepted', Dundee Evening Telegraph (Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1939).
- ^ 'W.E.A. German Class Tutor Resigns', Dundee Courier (Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1939).
- ^ 'Tutor Was There, But No Pupils', Dundee Courier (Friday, Feb. 3, 1939).
- ^ Charles T. Carr, Nominal Compounds in Germanic, St Andrews University Publications, 41 (London, 1939).
- ^ a b c John L. Flood, 'German Studies', in A Century of British Medieval Studies, ed. by Alan Deyermond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 427–59.