Claus Bock
Claus Victor Bock was a professor of German studies.
In the early 1950s, Bock studied with Ronald Peacock at the University of Manchester, attracted by the latter's research on Hölderlin, and obtained a PhD at Basle under Walter Muschg. After working briefly as an assistant lecturer at his alma mater, he became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London, then reader, and finally professor of German, Westfield College, London. Two of Bock's noted PhD students were Jeremy Adler and John Fletcher.
