John Christopher Middleton (10 June 1926 – 29 November 2015)[1] was a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.
Following four years' service in the Royal Air Force,[3] he studied at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1948.
[4] He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London.
[4] In 1966 he took up a position as Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, retiring in 1998.
[5] Middleton has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others.