‘Here is elocution, style and wit’ Ian Maxwell in Copenhagen 1934–36

Abstract

In the period 1933-1940 four foreign, English-speaking scholars/teachers came to the University of Copenhagen, one after another. The second of these was Ian Maxwell, undoubtedly the first Australian in the Danish capital to teach English to Danish students. In a students' magazine, dated 1949, Professor C.A. Bodelsen I dis-cusses these foreign teachers and underlines the advantages to himself, his colleagues and to the students of having a 'native speaker' in their midst.