Joseph Peter Maria Stern, FBA (25 December 1920 – 18 November 1991) was an authority on German literature.
Born into a Jewish family,[1] he was educated in Prague, Vienna and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his MA in 1947.
He took up a lectureship at Bedford College, London, and then at Cambridge in 1952, returning to St. John's.
A prolific scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, he wrote on Nietzsche, Kafka, Jünger, Rilke and Mann, and edited the series Landmarks in World Literature.
He married Sheila McMullan (23 June 1922 – 16 November 2005) in 1944, having met her as a student in 1940.