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Derek Maurice van Abbé (born London, 1916, died , 1982) was a professor of German literature at Cambridge

First son of Salomon Van Abbé, an artist, etcher and illustrator of books and amagazines of Dutch origin. -> ebook page 163

studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge, where he achieved First Class Honours in 1938. He then went to the University of Zurich to begin studying for his doctorate, but the war

was formerly a Major and spent 1941/6 in the German Intelligence Section of the War Office interpreting strategy and political intelligence. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20633107?uid=3737864&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103095832947

Candidate for the Labour Party in 1945 http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge45/i13.htm

University of Tasmania http://www.fabian.org.au/files/Fabian_News_Vol.45_No.3_1.pdf

Head of Department of German at Adelaide University : http://hahndorf.wikispot.org/Academy_History

during the course of 1951, Derek Van Abbe (or van Abbé) was appointed to a full-time position not as Senior Lecturer but as Reader in German, with duties to commence at the beginning of 1952. The wait would prove to have been worthwhile.

M.A., PhD in German Published by: Australian Institute of Policy and Science Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41317611

Adelaide Uniersity 1951-1961 https://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/faculty-arts/arts-ebook.pdf page

PROF. and Mrs. Derek Van Abbe and small son Quentin will sail in the Esperance Bay for London on January 21 from Melbourne. Prof. Van Abbe is going overseas for a year's study leave from Adelaide University, and after three months in England with his family will go to Germany. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/58094786 [The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954) ( 09. Jan. 1954]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1972.tb00806.x/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Dr. Derek Van Abbe, head of the Adelaide University’s department of German, who on Saturday expressed concern that university students and professional men did not read enough, said that the real answer to comics was that children should be taught to read from the earliest possible age. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/DEBATING_LITERACY_IN_AUSTRALIA_copy.pdf