1. Charles Brink was a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
13 Facts About Charles Brink
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In 1907, Charles Brink, then Karl Oskar Levy, was born into a secular Jewish family in Charlottenburg.
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Charles Brink's father, Arthur, was a legal professional who, in 1922, was appointed a notary.
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Charles Brink attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wedding, where he excelled more in the study of German literature and Philosophy than in the Classical languages.
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Charles Brink obtained his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation entitled Stil und Form der pseudaristotelischen Magna moralia.
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In 1948, Brink accompanied fellow Oxford classicist T E Wright to an appointment at the University of St Andrews.
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Charles Brink began work on an edition of the philosophical works of Cicero.
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In 1951, Charles Brink was appointed to the chair of Latin at the University of Liverpool.
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Charles Brink was elected to the fellowship of Gonville and Caius College and took an active role in the running of the college.
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At a time when verse and prose composition still occupied a central place in the study of the Classics, Charles Brink became a leading voice for the shift towards literary critic modes of scholarship.
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Charles Brink was involved in David Robinson's effort to establish a new college in the university and became a trustee of Robinson's donation.
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Charles Brink intended to bequeath to the college his vast personal library.
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Charles Brink died on March 2,1994, in Cambridge, where he and his wife are commemorated in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground.