Edward Timms OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud. Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Habsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.