Mason, Eudo Colecestra.

Eudo Colecestra Mason - Colchester Mason - was born in Colchester on 26 September 1901. He went to school in Cambridge and studied in Oxford and Cambridge. He held posts as a Lektor at Muenster, Leipzig, and Basle, taking his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on R. M. Rilke. He later became a D.Litt., Oxford. Mason came to Edinburgh University as a Lecturer in 1946, and became Professor of German in 1951. His publications include Rilke's apotheosis (1938), Der Zopf des Muenchausen (1949), The mind of Henry Fuseli (1951), Rilke, Europe and the English-speaking world (1961), and The genesis and purport of Goethe's Faust (1967). Professor Eudo Colecestra Mason died in Edinburgh on 10 June 1969.

From the guide to the Collection of Letters and Poems of Eudo Colecestra Mason (1901-1969), 1915-1969, (Edinburgh University Library)