Papers of Professor Jacques Berthoud

Personal papers, 1949-1974, including files on education policy, the education of various ethnic groups and papers relating to the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS).

Born in March, 1935, in Switzerland, where his father, Alexandre, was a pastor, Berthoud the oldest of five children. The family moved to Lesotho when he was three, and lived at various mission stations. He attended the Morija Primary Mission School and later Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1956 and was a lecturer in the English department of the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1960-1967. A fierce opponent of apartheid, he was a member of the multiracial Liberal Party until it was banned. In 1967, he accepted a lectureship in English at the University of Southampton and remained there until 1979, when he accepted a chair at the University of York and the headship of the department of English and Related Literature. He was head of department for 17 years and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for three of those years. He was chairman of the British Section in 1979-1981. On his retirement in 2002, he was made Professor Emeritus.

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Born in March, 1935, in Switzerland, where his father, Alexandre, was a pastor, Berthoud the oldest of five children. The family moved to Lesotho when he was three, and lived at various mission stations. He attended the Morija Primary Mission School and later Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1956 and was a lecturer in the English department of the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1960-1967. A fierce opponent of apartheid, he was a member of the multiracial Liberal Party until it was banned. In 1967, he accepted a lectureship in English at the University of Southampton and remained there until 1979, when he accepted a chair at the University of York and the headship of the department of English and Related Literature. He was head of department for 17 years and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for three of those years. He was chairman of the British Section in 1979-1981. On his retirement in 2002, he was made Professor Emeritus.

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