Hamburger, Michael Peter Leopold, son of Prof. Richard Hamburger MD, consult. paediatrician, Berlin, Germany, and Lili Martha, d. of Bertrand Hamburg of Bournemouth, Dorset; b. 22 Mar. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (B); left July 1941; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1941, BA MA 1949; a freelance writer 1948-52; asst. lecturer UCL 1952-5; lecturer in German, later Reader, Univ. of Reading 1955-64; visiting Prof. State Univ. of New York, USA 1969-71, Univ. of South Carolina, USA 1973, Univ. of Boston, USA 1975-7; member Acad. of Arts Berlin; Arts Council of GB translation prize 1967; Goethe Medal of Fed. German Republic 1986; State Prize for literary translation Austria 1988; hon. LittD Univ. of East Anglia 1988; OBE 1992; author of many books, incl. Collected Poems 1984 and 1985; m. 28 July 1951 Anne Ellen, d. of Leigh Richmond File of Reading, Berks; d. 7 July 2007.