Roy Wisbey

Over a period of 40 years he led the transformation of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) into a major scholarly publisher.

[1][3] He won an Open Scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge, matriculating in October 1949.

He achieved a first class degree in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos and graduated in 1952.

He studied in Germany 1952–1955, earning a doctorate under Julius Schwietering at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main.

[3][4] Roy Wisbey's first academic post was as a Research fellow at Bedford College, London, where he spent the year 1955–1956, after which he was appointed to a lectureship in German at the University of Durham, where he taught German literature from the sixteenth century to the modern day.