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********** Colleagues, friends and former students will be saddened to learn of the death - at his home in Reading at the age of 83 - of Professor W. A. Coupe. Bill Coupe's teaching career began at the University of Aberdeen in 1956; two years later he moved to Exeter, and then in 1963 to Reading. In 1971 he was appointed to the Chair of German at Southampton; and then in 1974, on the retirement of F. P. Pickering, he returned to Reading to take up the Chair there, a post he held through to his retirement in 1995. Bill's scholarly interests were wide-ranging, but his outstanding contribution to German Studies was undoubtedly his pioneering work on early broadsheets and the history of the political cartoon. (Details of Bill's career, and a list of his publications, can be found in the special number of German Life and Letters that was presented to him on his retirement: Vol. 48, No. 3 [July 1995].) There will be a private family funeral. Anyone wishing to contact Bill's wife, Else, can do so by emailing <[log in to unmask]>. **********