Max Theodor Wilhelm Förster (8 March 1869 – 10 November 1954) was a German scholar of Old English.
[1] In 1934, Förster was forced to retire from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: he was an opponent of the Nazi regime and was married to a Jewish woman and had a Jewish student.
He was a visiting professor at Yale University from 1934 to 1936.
[2] Wrongly thought to live in the United Kingdom, he was included in The Black Book, a SS list of prominent British residents to be arrested after the invasion of Britain.
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