13 Facts About Malcolm Pasley

Sir John Malcolm Sabine Pasley, 5th Baronet, FBA, known as Malcolm Pasley, was an eminent British philologist and literary scholar.

At University of Oxford, Pasley became the foremost authority of his generation on German literature, particularly well known for his dedication to and publication of the works of Franz Kafka.

Malcolm Pasley then went up to Trinity College, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages, graduating with a first-class degree in 1949.

Malcolm Pasley taught at Brasenose and Magdalen from 1950 until 1958, when he was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Malcolm Pasley wrote about many German authors, with his initial studies of the German language, Nietzsche in particular, gaining him much fame.

Malcolm Pasley is best known for his scholarship of the Kafka writings.

Malcolm Pasley began studying Kafka in the early part of his career and was introduced to Marianne Steiner, Kafka's niece and daughter of his sister Valli, by her son Michael, who was a student at Oxford.

In 1961, Malcolm Pasley transported them by car from Switzerland to Oxford.

Malcolm Pasley reflected on the adventure as one that "made his own hair stand on end".

At Oxford, Malcolm Pasley headed a team of scholars that recompiled the text, removed Max Brod's edits and changes, and began publishing the works in 1982.

Subsequent to the publication of the Kafka works, Malcolm Pasley began receiving criticism about the completeness of their German publication.

Malcolm Pasley married, in 1965, Virginia nee Wait, only daughter of Peter Lothian Killigrew Wait, whose maternal grandfather was General Sir Lothian Nicholson.

Lady Malcolm Pasley was a sister-in-law of the 9th Duke of Leinster.