Michael Beddow is a specialist in German literature

German literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...

, who is also a renowned expert in the application of XML

XML

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 technologies to web representations of literary corpora, and who is deeply involved with the work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI

TEI

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).

He studied at the St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge

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, earning a Double First in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos in 1969.
He studied at University of Tübingen, as Foundation Scholar of the King Edward VII British-German Foundation.
He held lecturing posts at Cambridge and London, before being appointed to the Chair of German at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

, from which he retired in 1998.
He has been undertaken the primary technical responsibilities for the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

The project of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism was initiated by Charles Muller, a specialist in East Asian Buddhism, during his first year of graduate school when he realized the dearth of lexicographical works available for both East Asian Buddhism and classical Chinese...

, and the Internet version of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary.

Works

• Goethe, Faust I, Grant & Cutler, 1986, ISBN 9780729302616
• The fiction of humanity: studies in the Bildungsroman from Wieland to Thomas Mann, Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780521245333