Eliza Marian Butler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eliza Marian Butler

English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1885

Place of Birth: Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1959

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959), who published as E.
M.
Butler and Elizabeth M.
Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945.
Her most influential book was The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935), in which she wrote that Germany has had "too much exposure to Ancient Greek literature and art.
The result was that the German mind had succumbed to 'the tyranny of an ideal'.
The German worship of Ancient Greece had emboldened the Nazis to remake Europe in their image." It was controversial in Britain and its translation was banned in Germany.