Otto Heller (4 July 1863 – 29 July 1941) author and academic. Heller wrote ''Prophets of Dissent''.
Career
Heller was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (now
Karlovy Vary,
Czech Republic
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). He attended the
University of Prague, followed by the universities of Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1883 as a tutor and secured the post of instructor in Greek at
La Salle College
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in Philadelphia in 1887. Heller received his Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago
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in 1890.
Heller taught briefly at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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before becoming a professor of German language and literature at
Washington University
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in
St. Louis
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in 1892. In 1914, Heller was promoted to professor of modern European literature in addition to his original professorship, and in 1924 he became the first dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a post he held until he became dean emeritus in 1937.
Heller died on 28 July 1941 at his summer cottage in
Bellaire, Michigan
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The village is split between Forest Home and Kearney townships. The historic Antrim County Courthouse is ...
.
Works
* ''Studies in modern German literature'' (1905)
* ''Henrik Ibsen: plays and problems'' (1912)
* ''Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy'' (1918)
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Personal life
Heller was married to Jean S. Blair Heller.
See also
* Faust
* Gerhart Hauptmann
* Henrik Ibsen
* Maurice Maeterlinck
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* August Strindberg
* Charles Sealsfield
* Hermann Sudermann
* Leo Tolstoy
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References
External links
* The Otto Heller Papers Washington University Libraries OCL
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Henry W Nordmeyer Papers
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Charles Nagel Papers
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Henry W. Nordmeyer Papers
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1863 births
1941 deaths
Writers from Karlovy Vary
Comparative literature academics
German literature
American people of Czech descent
University of Chicago alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
La Salle University faculty
20th-century scholars
20th-century linguists
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States