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Charles Brink (Karl Oskar Levy) was born on 13 March, 1907 in Charlottenburg, Weimar Republic, is a German-British classical scholar. Discover Charles Brink's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
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Born 13 March, 1907
Birthday 13 March
Birthplace Charlottenburg, Weimar Republic
Date of death 1994
Died Place Cambridge, United Kingdom
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1907

Charles Oscar Brink (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University.

In 1907, Brink, then Karl Oskar Levy, was born into a secular Jewish family in Charlottenburg.

1922

His father, Arthur, was a legal professional who, in 1922, was appointed a notary.

He attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wedding, where he excelled more in the study of German literature and Philosophy than in the Classical languages.

1925

In 1925, he enrolled at Humboldt University of Berlin (known as Friedrich Whillhelm University at the time) to study Classical Philology under some of the most influential scholars of the time, including Werner Jaeger, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Eduard Norden.

1928

During a visit to Oriel College, Oxford, in 1928, Brink had the opportunity to familiarise himself with the British academia and the work of A.E. Housman.

1933

He obtained his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation entitled Stil und Form der pseudaristotelischen Magna moralia.

For the next five years he worked on the staff of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich.

In the aftermath of Adolf Hitler's seizure of power, Brink began to seek employment outside of Germany.

1938

After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.

Aided by W. D. Ross, he was able to secure a position with the Oxford Latin Dictionary and relocated to Oxford in 1938.

1940

In June 1940, Brink and his family were interned at Peel, Isle of Man, because of their German descent.

After his release, he started working as a classics tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later acted as classics master for the affiliated Magdalen College School.

1942

It was during his time at Oxford that he met Daphne Hope Harvey, whom he married in 1942.

They had three sons.

1948

In 1948, Brink accompanied fellow Oxford classicist T. E. Wright to an appointment at the University of St. Andrews.

During his time in Scotland, his reputation as a classical scholar in Britain was much furthered by articles on Tacitus.

He also began work on an edition of the philosophical works of Cicero.

1951

In 1951, Brink was appointed to the chair of Latin at the University of Liverpool.

Though his tenure was to be a short one, he fostered a friendship with F. W. Walbank centred around the study of Polybius.

1954

After brief stints at several British universities, he was appointed to the prestigious Kennedy chair of Latin at Cambridge in 1954.

In this role, he established himself as one of the foremost scholars of a generation of Jewish scholars who fled Germany during the Third Reich.

Credited with bringing his intimacy with the conception of Alterumswissenschaften to Britain, Brink's principal academic achievement was a far ranging edition of Horace's theoretical work (three volumes of Horace on Poetry).

He was a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

After only three years at Liverpool, Brink was made Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge in 1954, a post he held until his retirement in 1974.

He was elected to the fellowship of Gonville and Caius College and took an active role in the running of the college.

At a time when verse and prose composition still occupied a central place in the study of the Classics, Brink became a leading voice for the shift towards literary critic modes of scholarship.

His tenure as Kennedy Professor saw work on his magnum opus: a comprehensive study of Horace's work on poetry.

1963

It was published in three volumes, appearing in 1963, 1971 and 1982 respectively.

After his retirement, Brink remained an influential figure at Cambridge.

He was involved in David Robinson's effort to establish a new college in the university and became a trustee of Robinson's donation.

1985

After the college received its royal charter in 1985, he was elected to an honorary fellowship.

He also intended to bequeath to the college his vast personal library.

The collection is now housed at the University of Tokyo after Robinson College declined the gift.

1994

Brink died on March 2, 1994, in Cambridge, where he and his wife are commemorated in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground.