Hamburger, Michael Peter Leopold (Berlin, 1924- ), poet and translator, moved to England with his family in 1933. He read German at Oxford and has taught the subject at university level. As a translator of German verse he is most noted for his versions of Hölderlin: Poems of Hölderlin appeared in 1943 (revised edition 1952), Selected Verse in 1961 and Poems and Fragments in 1967 (revised and enlarged edition 1980). His translation (with others) of the poems and verse plays of Hofmannsthal appeared in 1961, and he has also published English versions of works by Goethe (Poems and Epigrams, 1983), Grass, Enzensberger, Bichsel, Nelly Sachs, Eich, Huchel, and Celan. His own Collected Poems were published in 1984. He has written a number of critical works on German literature.

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