Arno Fritz Kurt Schirokauer (20 July 1899 – 24 May 1954) was a German-Jewish literary scholar, best known for his biography of Ferdinand Lassalle.
In 1939, Schirokauer managed to travel to
Havana, Cuba
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Yale University
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from 1941 to 1943, at
Kenyon College
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from 1943 to 1944, at Yale again 1944 to 1945, and at
Johns Hopkins University
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from 1946 until his death in 1954.Gerhard Peter Knapp, ''Autoren damals und heute: literaturgeschichtliche Beispiele veränderter Wirkungshorizonte'', Rodopi, 1991, pp. 715ff.
Works
* ''Lassalle, die Macht der Illusion, die Illusion der Macht''. Translated into English by Eden and
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Biography
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as ''Lassalle; the power of illusion and the illusion of power''. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 931
* (ed. with Wolfgang Paulsen) ''Corona: studies in celebration of the eightieth birthday of Samuel Singer, professor emeritus, University of Berne, Switzerland''. Durham, NC, 1941.
* ''Germanistische Studien''. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1957.