Emil Julius Trechmann
1856–1929 (age 73)
Biography
Emil Julius Trechmann forged a quiet but persistent bridge between German and English letters, translating novels, essays, and dramatic texts so that readers on both sides of the Channel might share ideas and heart. His careful ear for idiom and tone brought a new clarity to works that might otherwise have remained distant, and his scholarship earned him respect among London literary circles.
He made his home near St John-at-Hampstead, and its congregation remembers him as a thoughtful patron whose faith and erudition enriched the parish before his death in 1929.