Ritchie Neil Ninian Robertson FBA is a British academic who was the Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature between 2010 and 2021. He was educated at Nairn Academy in the North of Scotland and at Edinburgh University, where he took two degrees, in English and German. He has been a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford since 2010. He is a former Germanic Editor of The Modern Language Review. Professor Robertson co-directs the Oxford Kafka Research Centre with Carolin Duttlinger and Professor Katrin Kohl. He also translates German literature into English, most recently Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus.
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The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
Vermischte Schriften by Heinrich Heine
English · Penguin · 1993
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Anton Reiser: a Psychological Novel
Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz
English · Penguin · 1997
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The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
Die Harzreise by Heinrich Heine
English · Penguin · 2006
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The Man who Disappeared (America)
Amerika by Franz Kafka
English · Oxford World's Classics · 2009
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Doctor Faustus
Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde by Thomas Mann
English · Oxford University Press · 2026
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