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THE DOKTOR GOES FOR A DRIVE
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The Independent - London
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March 9, 1997
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Copyright informationCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the massively hard-working and hugely
influential architectural historian, arrived in England from
Germany in 1935 to take up a research post at the University of
Birmingham's Department of Commerce. His mission was to study
British indus- trial design. A shy, meticulous, and driven scholar,
he was 33 years old, and although he was formidably bright, his
English was as uncertain as his future in a hidebound culture in
which the work of the amateur had long been prized above that of
the professional critic and historian. For this he was to be much
teased. But if it upset him privately, he never complained. Wisely,
he decided not to return to Germany, but to begin ...
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