Eliza Marian Butler

Eliza Marian Butler, was an English linguist, academic, and scholar of German who successively held two prestigious endowed professorships: the Henry Simon Chair in German (1936–1944) at University of Manchester; and the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. She was the first woman ever appointed to either of these chairs. Controversial when first published, and banned in Germany, her 1935 book The Tyranny of Greece over Germany, became a classic of German cultural analysis in the English-speaking world after the Second World War. In addition to academic works, published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, she published two novels and a memoir.